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...Townsend seemed to have a lock on this year's election for Maryland Governor. When Townsend's aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver threw her a $10-a-head fund raiser last year, traffic backed up for more than a mile, as 5,000 people clamored for an afternoon of Kennedy glamour. And the Governor's mansion was seen as a way station: it was just a matter of time, the pundits were saying, until Bobby Kennedy's eldest landed a spot on a national ticket...
Who’s to say? He’s a defensive player, and in the necessarily glamour-hungry world of sports journalism, defenders—especially linemen—rarely enjoy the cherished ink of the back page. He entered training camp without a formal spot on the depth chart, let alone the slightest bit of name recognition for the vast majority of Harvard football fans. And, as a 22-year-old junior, his days as a member of the Crimson are numbered at the outset. Who’s to say that this won?...
...flora and fauna, which filled the great natural-history museums like New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Washington's Smithsonian Institution, has been eclipsed according to Hoffman by a preoccupation with molecular biology. "It's a sad situation," he says. "We're coasting on the glamour of biodiversity but losing the ability to identify the creatures on this planet." Even the ones in a big city park...
Fiorentina Footie Fiasco Italian football authorities gave former glamour club Fiorentina the boot from Italy's Serie B competition after the club, reportedly facing bankrupt-cy, failed to meet a deadline to arrange cover for its $22 million debt. Fiorentina has been in difficulty since...
...Note that all are men. Meyer's company was named Eve Productions, after his wife and former glamour model. To earn her producer credit on 11 films, she ran the office, negotiated with buyers and simmered while Russ kept her home while he had fun - what kind of fun? - on location. Their relationship, professionally symbiotic, was personally strained. After an operation, she told Russ: "I hope you're satisfied: I can never have a baby now." They divorced in 1970, and Meyer married Edy Williams, the starlet-visaged, harlot-configured ornament to his first studio film, "Beyond the Valley...