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Brady has no illusions about his new job. Says he: "There is more than the glamour and title. It's probably the toughest p.r. job in the world." His two deputies will be Kama Small, a television newscaster, and Larry Speakes, a veteran of President Ford's press office...
Lured by the glamour of New York City, the couple spent much time there in the years from 1950 to 1954. His interest was music, and he frequented the concert halls. Her interest was art, and she spent her evenings in The Club in Greenwich Village and other haunts of the then avant-garde New York School of painting. At the nearby Cedar Bar, Jackson Pollock caroused, Robert Motherwell discoursed, Willem de Kooning waxed disputatious. Her hair was blond, her figure svelte, her age happily indeterminate (actually mid-30s) and her artistic commitment impeccable. She was on their wave length...
When South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, medicine instantly had a new glamour field. In two years, more than 60 teams around the world replaced failing hearts in about 150 people. Barely 20% of the patients survived after twelve months. By the mid-'70s the operation was abandoned by nearly all its early advocates...
Barbara Gilder Quint, financial expert, writer for Money and Glamour magazines...
Frustrated male leg watchers complain that the jump ensemble puts limbs in limbo. On the other hand-discretion being the better part of glamour- the suits can be effective camouflage for the not-too-perfect figure. Says one West Coast jumper: "You don't have to be a 110-Ib. size eight to look good." That holds true, evidently, on the ground or in the air. Last week, to kick off a fashion show, Man Oh Man, a Detroit specialty shop, dropped three jumpsuited parachutists into the Detroit River...