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...long obvious that the big (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.), handsome naval officer-among other things, he is called "Gorgeous George"-was headed for big things.* He flew Grumman fighters from the carrier Lexington, was a landing signal officer on the carrier Yorktown, executive officer of a squadron of PBY patrol planes. In 1943, he saw action in the Pacific as navigator and tactical officer aboard the newly commissioned Yorktown (the first carrier Yorktown went down in June 1942). He then held down an assortment of desk jobs in postwar Washington, and in 1950 was named operations officer...
Florida. "Gorgeous George'' Smathers is sure to be reelected...
TIME Magazine of Sept. 28 contained a gorgeous 12-page section of color photographs depicting the fantastic amount of construction which has overwhelmed New York City in the last five years. Page after page showed superb photographs of vast new skyscrapers, airline terminals, Lincoln Center, housing developments, slum clearance projects, power plants, big stores, all of which have transformed the face of our city. We congratulate TIME on a strikingly beautiful job of color printing, photography, writing and editing and research...
Durie's debut in 1934 occurred at an outdoor dance on the family estate, where, society columns recorded, there was "half a ton of gorgeous bouquets and corsages," and "Dede" was "radiant, with golden-brown hair, blue-green eyes and a sunny smile." At the age of 20, on April 3, 1937, in a Presbyterian ceremony, she married John Bersbach, grandson of Judge Theodore Brentano, onetime Minister to Hungary. They honeymooned in a yacht off Florida, tried to settle down in Lake Forest...
...impressive work of artifice, surely one of the best movies ever made for less than $20,000. Purists will praise Director Kaneto Shindo (Children of Hiroshima) for his skill at telling a story without words, and everybody will be grateful to Cameraman Kiyoshi Kuroda. As he sees them, the gorgeous shore-scapes of the Inland Sea, like all worlds in the Oriental sense of things, dissolve and reel away into visionary vastness, into the pure space of pure spirit...