Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist Hedda Hopper thought it was high time Hollywood stopped trying to make its stars look like just folks, and began marketing some of the oldtime glamour. Said she: "You can't pick up a magazine without seeing pictures of your favorite star marketing...washing dishes, hanging out diapers, changing babies. If they haven't got a baby they romp with a dog... You never saw Valentino holding a child; but you saw him with a beautiful babe on his arm. Jack Barrymore never posed for a life-with-father layout. Have you ever seen a picture...
...Maxim. The probability also goes to show the tangled state of U.S. boxing. Only four months ago, Seattle's Harry ("Kid") Matthews knocked the stuffing out of Murphy (one judge scored it 8-2). Since then, Matthews has knocked out two heavyweights and last week, far from the glamour of Yankee Stadium, he was knocking out another, Heavyweight (210 Ibs.) Bill Peterson in a Boise, Idaho arena. But Matthews was as far from a crack at the title as ever. Reason: the International Boxing Club, which controls most of the big boxing arenas (and most of boxing...
...broadest sense of the word, and some of its down-to-earth brashness is bound to rub off into TV . . . Bride and Groom is as embarrassing as watching your girl friend publicly eating peas off her knife. But on the whole the programs are high level. If there is glamour on view, there is usually talent along with it. You must talk with your mouth as well as your neckline...
...less a novel than a pedantic, prurient diatribe against one of the best-publicized kings Israel ever had. Solomon (loth Century B.C.) is presented as a sort of Old Testament Sammy Click with chin whiskers, a tough little opportunist who elbows his way into the big money, marries a glamour girl (Khate, an Egyptian princess), and hires a frustrated poet to ghost his copy-even, it would seem, such copy as the Book of Proverbs...
...wanton wench on the marquee, turns out to apply to nothing more alluring than a tennis ball. The heroine (Sally Forrest) is a teen-aged tennis virtuoso whose selfish, frustrated mother (Claire Trevor) exploits the girl's talent to wangle a life of ease, travel and glamour...