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Beverly A. Aimaro Haver hill, Mass...
...movie-afflicted early on. "It's just in the past six or seven years," she says, "that I've started to find out how I would act if I were not Betty Gra-ble." With a vision of herself as a composite Grable, Deanna Durbin and June Haver she wandered through an almost schizoid array of jobs-and names-on her way to wising up. She was Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit's Cass Technical High School; Edna...
...were an elderly dog. That is his pride, and he has earned it. As he explains, he was the fiction editor of Esquire and then of the Saturday Evening Post for several years, acquiring a modest but satisfying reputation as an acute and discerning lunch-haver. An editor who can have lunch well is secure in his profession, but about eight years ago Hills threw it all up (his profession, that is), and retired to fester in Connecticut. He was, of course...
RICHARD NIXON-June Allyson, Richard Arlen, Frankie Avalon, Edgar Bergen, Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger, Pat Boone, Les Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Cyd Charisse, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Day, Yvonne de Carlo, Don DeFore, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Joanne Dru, Irene Dunne, Clint Eastwood, Rhonda Fleming, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Virginia Grey, June Haver, Hildegarde, Bob Hope, Sammy Kaye, Lainie Kazan, Dorothy Lamour, Art Linkletter, Fred MacMurray, Gordon MacRae, Tony Martin, Virginia Mayo, Ann Miller, Mary Ann Mobley, Terry Moore, Ken Murray, Lloyd Nolan, Hugh O'Brian, John Payne, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Raymond, Cesar Romero, Red Skelton, Julie Sommars, James Stewart, Rudy Vallee...
...Naturally a citizen cannot escape being proved a fraud by spending his weekends working instead of fun having. The business man who keeps Saturday office hours does not do it to catch up on his work, nor to impress his boss; he is hiding from failure as a fun haver. The weekend gardener trowels guilt into the soil; the Sunday painter paints his soul off-white...