Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsome Lou, idol of Cleveland's bobby-soxers as well as its knowledgeable fans, had his biggest year in 1948, right after Bill Veeck tried to fire him. Batting a splendid .355 and driving in 106 runs, Lou led his Indians to their first pennant in 28 years and a world championship over the Boston Braves...
Died. Maurice Costello, 73, oldtime matinee idol, the movies' first high-salaried great lover, father of ex-Actresses Dolores (the third Mrs. John Barrymore) and Helene Costello; in Hollywood. Broke and jobless much of the time since World War I, he wound up as a radio bit-player. "It's better to be a has-been," he once said, "than a never...
...departure: they substituted corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred pioneering to perfecting...
Four floors below, Congressman Lodge -a conservative Republican-greeted his well-wishers like a matinee idol, which in tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
Hooked Idea. Before becoming the anonymous idol of her panting fans, Texas-born Jean King was a singer, a movie bit player (Tarzan and the Amazons) and a radio actress. In 1947, marooned in Dayton, Ohio, she went on station WING as a disc jockey. "I was damned lonely in Dayton," she recalls. "So I just hooked onto this idea and talked about my loneliness. And, you know, I found out there are a lot of lonesome people in this world...