Word: glamourizer
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...inches off his waistline, he figures he can do it too. We tell the reader how to be attractive but not how to catch a mate or how to be sexy-we never use that word." By always being cheerful and never being sexy, the Churchill sisters pry glamour tips from Hollywood stars and pass them along in panting prose. ("The best-made plans of damsels and designers can swirl down the fashion drain if you aren't wearing the proper foundation under your basic dress.") They never miss a chance to add that the prettiest face will turn...
...American girl-honorable, honest and forthright." In Hollywood such praise usually ends with "Now go home to Iowa." But the Churchill sisters were delighted. Reba, 29, and Bonnie, 26, were already home; they are old hands in Hollywood. In a town that makes a business of manufacturing dubious glamour, they have made a virtue of pink-scrubbed cheeks and moral beauty. They have also packaged their wholesome views into a weekly column that is carried by 270 papers in the U.S. and abroad. Last week Theta Sigma Phi, an honorary women's journalism society, named the sisters winners...
They take credit for new beauty trends too. They popularized the "beret-bang coiffure," for which girls snip their bangs along the jaunty angle of a beret; the Churchill sisters claim they see it everywhere. Their book, Reba and Bonnie's Guide to Glamour and Personality, was used as the official reference for the 1962 Miss Universe contest...
...riding the all-night bus, as Correspondent Ben Gate did, between one-night stands of the Stan Ken ton band (see Music) and getting into the stiff poker game and discovering that whatever glamour there is in that kind of jazz life, it's all out front...
...boat that would defend the America's Cup against Australia's Gretel would not be picked until after next month's final elimination trials. But in the first "observation" trials, two boats came out clear-cut favorites: Ted Hood's buxom $300,000 Nefertiti, the glamour boat of the warmup trials, with ten wins and only two defeats; and Weatherly, an also-ran in the 1958 cup trials, which finally found her speed with canny Skipper Bus Mosbacher (TIME. July 13) at the helm. Even Nefertiti's butter-fingered crew could not seem to slow...