Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former mayors of the Japanese city of Moji (pop. 110,000) which hang in the office of Municipal Assembly President Kiichi Suematsu, the likeness of an Occidental dignitary was placed. It was the celebrated nude calendar photograph (3 ft. by 2 ft.) of a recent visitor to Japan, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Explained Assembly President Suematsu, whose idea it was to round out his gallery: "The picture should serve to rejuvenate our municipal assemblymen...
...Just the thing to wear when seeing Marilyn. Monroe in How to Marry a Decadent Imperialistic Beast...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jimmy Durante, with Liberace, Marilyn Maxwell...
...England, the city fathers of Manchester fussed and fumed over whether to pay Sculptor Henry Moore a generous ?760 for a lumpy chunk of bronze called Draped Torso, which looked like a vandalized nightgown. Murmured one alderman: "I wish it were a statue of Marilyn Monroe." Sneered a Moore supporter: "This is a work of art." An anti-Moore man retorted: "Is the councilor insinuating that Marilyn Monroe is not a work of art?" Moore's Torso lost the vote...
...With nearly all the annual film prizes, except the Academy Awards, presented or accounted for, Photoplay magazine slipped under the wire with its 1953 Gold Medal selections. Top winners: Alan Ladd and Marilyn Monroe...