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Planning a return to West German stages after a 30-year absence, Berlin-born Glamour Girl Marlene Dietrich, 55. was aware that her'reception might be chilly. Reason: during and after World War II, Grandma Marlene damned Hitler and his works so roundly that many Germans still believe she is downright anti-German. Marlene's impending return created a spate of mumbling in the West German press. She shrugged it off: "The only thing I'm really afraid of is eggs. I have a swans-down coat, and if an egg ever hits...
...current issue of Harper's Bazaar, Photographer Richard Avedon tries to show that all women possess a quality that he calls "The Sphinx Within." With seven international glamour girls as his subjects, Avedon got them to look slinkily feline under a variety of hairdos purporting to be Egyptian. He achieves his most eye-catching effect with Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, thereby moving another glamorous tigress, New York Mirror Society Chatterist "Suzy" to comment: "When they make her a plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls...
...cigar." Small-Town Touch. By stimulating, anticipating and satisfying the public taste, R. J. Reynolds has built itself into the biggest and, according to Wall Street, the best-managed company in the U.S. tobacco industry. But it has never lost its oldfashioned, small-town touch. It resisted the glamour of setting up offices in New York City, as most other cigarette companies did, stayed on in provincial Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest booster and a major contributor to civic drives. From the company's red brick factories...
...awed politician: "I didn't recognize a fraction of them, and I know most of the Democrats in the district." Added a leading Democrat: "If you were to limit this election to habitual Democrats, Humphrey would probably win. But all the fringe interest has been with Kennedy; the glamour, the hard campaigning by the family, have brought out a whole new crop of voters...
...most voters know, the Kennedys of Massachusetts think highly of Jack. Last week in Wisconsin, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota whisked about the countryside to make sure that not a voter forgot it-especially on primary day, April 5. "I cannot win by competing in glamour or in public relations," cried Humphrey, who knew very well that the polls put him behind Senator Jack Kennedy. "The Kennedy forces are waging a psychological blitz that I cannot match. I'm not the candidate of the fat cats . . ." Humphrey followers bitterly accused Millionaire Kennedy of trying...