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Guest writing in place of off-duty United Presshen Aline Mosby, full-bodied Cineminx Jayne Mansfield got confidential about her limelight techniques: "My press clippings, bound, weigh 95 lbs. . . . They've meant everything to my career thus far ... If you tell [newsfolk] the truth they try very hard not to hurt you with it ... When my daughter, Jayne Marie, now six, comes to an age when she will have problems, I'll hand her my scrapbook and say, 'This was your mother...
Devoted to his chief and unimpressed by the limelight, Hoover at week's end could be cheered by reports that the Secretary was rapidly recovering, might be back at his Foggy Bottom desk sooner than expected...
Spry old (77) Lord Beveridge, whose widely debated report of 1942 set Britain firmly on the path of womb-to-tomb social security, bounced briefly back into the limelight to complain to his fellow Liberals that the path to his own tomb is studded with inflationary obstacles these days. After retiring from his last government job, Beveridge had felt secure about having enough gold for his golden years: "I was able to take with me for superannuation enough pounds to feel fairly happy for my future. Now each of those pounds is worth six shillings, eight pence. Our plans...
...Dwight Eisenhower's trip to Los Angeles was.to lend a needed helping hand to Kuchel's re-election campaign. Yet, after Ike landed, Nice Guy Kuchel was so nice that he let another Republican, ebullient, shoulder-thumping Governor Goodwin J. Knight, elbow him out of the limelight...
...brother's army against the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet. (Author Kendall's maps show modern landmarks so the reader can picture Warwick driving south across the "Golf Links.") But only with the sudden death of Edward IV does Richard step into the limelight-chosen by his dying brother as Lord Protector of England and guardian of twelve-year-old Edward...