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Clara Bow, 43, "It" Girl of cinema's flapper era, better known to a later generation as radio's first "Mrs. Hush," would come out of retirement, briefly, for a stage appearance. The show: a Santa Fe straw-hat production of Personal Appearance. Her role: a man-crazy movie actress on tour. Now the wife of a rancher (ex-Movie Cowboy Rex Bell) and mother of two children, Clara was doing it strictly "for fun." A Hollywood comeback later on? Not a chance, said she: "I had my babies and I like the life in Nevada . . ." After...
Last week in Manhattan's big new Bop City (TIME, April 25), the fans were giving Mr. B. a reverent greeting in keeping with his shy, devotional manner. The lights went down; a solemn hush spread over the joint. With Charlie Barnet's big brass backing him, Eckstine gave them Somehow, in big, rich tones (he sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River...
...national organization. Though the fraternity charter placed no restrictions on how an individual chapter was to select its members, the entire American fraternity structure rose to protest the Amherst chapter's action. Despite the bitterness of many other fraternities, despite the national Phi Kappa Psi's attempts to hush up the proceedings, the Amherst group persistently defended their right to choose a new member in their own manner...
...gradual outgrowing of the hush-hush period," writes Psychiatrist Dunbar, "many of the so-called 'enlightened' parents have thought it would help to let their children see them in the nude, beginning at a very early age. Experiments and experience have indicated that this is not a good idea . . . Let your children see you undressed, but not until they have seen their own contemporaries undressed . . . The reaction to excessive modesty and repression led to excessive exhibitionism and produced neurotic children. There is a middle way." Other Dunbar suggestions...
...years, Washington's $12 million Folger Shakespeare Library-the world's best-has sat in the shadow of the Library of Congress, attracting sightseers and scholars. Last week its custodians broke the hush of the folios and the quartos by giving Shakespeare a production...