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...actresses (including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Paulette Goddard) in The Women, Rosalind Russell is the one usually best remembered by the millions who saw the picture. She became firmly established as the idol of a generation of less-than-beautiful movie-going girls who had to use smart clothes and bright chatter to lure men away from more luscious-looking females...
This week comes the climax of the Mahamastakabhisheka. The Jains have prepared a wooden scaffolding around the idol's back and sides. On the last day, hundreds of priests and sanyasis, as they have done for centuries, will mount the scaffolding holding clay pots full of milk and melted butter. To the sound of flutes and drums, they will pour milk and butter over Gomateswara's head. Then, the anointing accomplished, the faithful will scatter back to their homes across the breadth of India, for another 15 years or so, until the next Mahamastakabhisheka...
Davey, fresh-faced, sandy-haired, and the scholarly looking victim of a retreating hairline, won six straight TV fights last year and became the idol of the fans. Gavilan, who bears the ugly scars of his profession-cauliflower ears, flattened nose, scarred eye tissue-was merely the welterweight champion of the world. Last week in Chicago, for the biggest gate in welterweight history ($275,415), the TV idol met the old pro. The result was as predictable as the 14-5 odds favoring Gavilan...
Gavilan, bouncy, exuberant and unmarked, clasped his hands over his head in the victory pose, then rushed to the ringside TV mike to tell an estimated 30 million viewers what had happened to their fallen idol. Said Gavilan: "He's a good fighter, but he no punch hard. He needs more experience. He's, well, you know ..." The welterweight champion left the thought unfinished. His next objective: the middleweight (160 lbs.) title. After all, says Gavilan: "I beat all the beeg welterweights, didn't I? Who else I gonna fight? Who gotta chance with the Keed...
...brothel. Her luck changed for good when, with mamma, she left Paris for London, became a hairdresser at the Savoy Hotel while mother did dressmaking. Today little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism, a reminder that life has its quota of sentiment and that it can be conveyed without sentimentality...