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When a bystander yelled, "Hey, the guy's married," Queen Laura playfully pretended to wipe off a smudge of lipstick. Then she kissed him again, and a thoroughly confused Star Farmer was taken on a slow circuit of the arena as thousands roared...
Bashful Side. After he got his prize, Ray Gene was directed to a sleek yellow convertible that was to take him on a triumphal ride around Kansas City's Royal arena. He took one bashful look at blonde Laura Carol Tarrant, queen of the American Royal show, perched above the car's back seat, and tried to slide in beside the driver. Told that he was to ride beside the queen, Ray Gene climbed to his place and was greeted with a congratulatory kiss, planted firmly on his flaming cheek...
...home in Hyde Park, young Franklin laboriously wrote: "I am in a great hurry. I found two birds nests. I took one egg." At seven: "I went to the Borland's I won one game by 2 she the other by 3. Send Papa 100 kisses and Aunt Laura and Uncle Frank both 75." At nine, on a trip to Bad Nauheim, Germany, in a round, bold hand he wrote to his cousins: "I go to the public school with a lot of little mickies and we have German reading, German dictation, the history of Siegfried, and arithmetic...
...novels with a great deal in common perched last week at the top of the best-seller list: Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement and Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal. Both were earnest, pamphleteering tracts on the U.S. race problem. As novels, they were not very good. Below them, the fictional bestseller list was studded with historical novels of a type which has become so standardized that even their book jackets look alike: an open-bosomed beauty in the foreground, a frigate in the distance...
...well-known yarn of beautiful, mysteriously murdered Laura Hunt still has its tingling moments. One of them is when Laura walks into her apartment, big as life, at a tense moment of the search for her slayer. But in general, the problem of who killed the blonde who was mistaken for Laura is much less tense than talky. What's more, the characters are all fairly dull, particularly those who are meant to be most fascinating. As the magnetic Laura, K. T. Stevens proves a washout in everything but looks; and, though Otto Kruger acts the decadent, supposedly brilliant...