Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman was coming right along. In Washington, she danced with Hollywood's beautiful Robert Taylor at the Navy Relief Society Ball. In Philadelphia, the Robin Hood Dell concert people wanted her for a July concert (at a reported $2,500), and it looked as if she might drop over from the Dell and pitch a few notes to the Democratic National Convention...
Ottawa to Oslo. Canada's Barbara Ann Scott was the girl everybody's eyes were on. Like a wind-whipped prairie fire, her fame has swept eastward from Ottawa to London and Oslo; a few sparks were even observed in Hollywood. In Prague, her photograph was printed in local newspapers 17 times in three days-Rita Hayworth, in Prague recently, got her picture in the paper only eight times. Back home in Ottawa, where a whole Dominion gurgles appreciatively every time Barbara Ann winks an eye, the wheels of government once stopped while the Canadian House of Commons...
Barbara Ann, with a peaches-&-cream complexion, saucer-size blue eyes and rosebud mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...
...hear one neutral European judge say: "Scott shows up the others when she merely skates on one foot in a straight line." The last skater to do that was Norway's brassy Sonja Henie, who in 1936 danced off the Olympic ice into a $1,000,000 Hollywood contract...
...year later, when a CRIMSON editor undertook to advise entering Harvard Freshmen on "The Truth About 'Cliffe Girls." Starting magnanimously, he wrote, "Nobody will deny that they're intelligent. A good many of them have fine senses of humor. But," he continued, "when it comes to beauty that Hollywood wouldn't be ashamed of, there are some lookers mixed in among a vast majority of twisted-seamed, straight-haired bespectacled young women who are, aesthetically speaking, nonentities...