Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amazing Jean "Toots" Thielemans (Columbia). Jazz on the harmonica. Belgian Thielemans, who learned his trade despite the Nazi jazz ban, now has the lively support of several mellow combos. He swings high, free and with surprising feeling, not to mention expert marksmanship. He cannot, however, resist an occasional gypsy switch...
Orpheus, by Jean Cocteau, is a witty, complicated, and thoroughly enjoyable play but it is not, despite the author's claim, a tragedy. But then perhaps one should not take Cocteau's description too seriously since he himself holds very little--and certainly not the Greek legend of Orpheus--as sacred. He uses the story of the Thracian singer as little more than a base on which to build a structure of humor and symbolism and allegory, all deriving their meaning through completely modern references. The result is a curious but somehow still effective blending of the past...
...JEAN SIMARD...
...spring of 1947, Norma Jeane was the busiest model in Hollywood. In one month she adorned the covers of five magazines. The film studios cocked an eye. One day Norma Jeane got a call from two of them: Starmaker Howard Hughes and 2Oth Century-Fox. She went to Fox first. Cried Casting Director Ben Lyon: "It's Jean Harlow all over again!" He signed her for $125 a week. He slapped a new label on her (Monroe was the maiden name of Norma Jeane's mother, and Marilyn began with an M too), and put her to work...
...Watched his fourth grandchild, Mary Jean Eisenhower, four months, christened in the White House Blue Room in the first such ceremony at the executive mansion since Benjamin Harrison's granddaughter Mary Lodge McKee was baptized in the Red Room...