Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addendum to your May 14 cover story on Marilyn Monroe, you may be delighted to have brought to your attention that the 18th century had its own Monroe, Dorothy, a beauty of the day celebrated for similar endowments. In thanking his friend Lord Clare for the gift of a haunch of venison, Oliver Goldsmith licked his chops and said...
...under way over whether he should be met at the station by a white or a black limousine (available for convention use are 150 Fords, 60 Mercurys and, for the VIPiest VIPs, 15 Lincolns). The consensus, as expressed by a member of the host committee : "Mr. Truman is not Marilyn Monroe. I think he should be met in black...
...that ever happened to a woman, and it's not the last . . . And if the two people love one another and marry, and if they have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: ¶ In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about form er Red buddies before the Un-American Activities Committee...
...slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable!" But from the London News Chronicle's Fashionewshen Jean Soward came a Soho snarl. Ticking off Marilyn...
...watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink and the beautiful, captured Britain...