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...travel on their tours without a $50,000 wardrobe. Movie Cowboy Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans top the bill at rodeos and circus stops across the country, where they put across a spiritual appeal that sends pistol-packing eight-year-olds off to Sunday school and their moist-eyed parents off to church. With their famed palomino horse, Trigger, they turn out a half-hour television show each week into which they are injecting more and more of a Christian message for the televiewers of 80 stations. They help many religious causes, such as Billy Graham...
...toil/At their honest calling/Enduring heat and cold." Cinemactress Ava Gardner, a restless siren who has spent the past month roving the world and attending national premieres of her latest movie, The Barefoot Contessa, popped up in Stockholm. She wore shoes to a party in her honor, pursed her moist lips prettily to get a kiss from Swedish Cinemogul Anders Sandrew, who surprised everyone by declining the lady's gambit, giving her a platonic buss on the forehead instead...
...Each sample illustrates in its own way the Lagerkvist habit of walking with one foot firmly on the ground, the other in the clouds. They include: ¶ The Lift That Went Down into Hell, a grim little tale in which a lover and his mistress, their lips "moist with wine," step unsuspectingly into a hotel elevator...
...nothing if not resilient, continued to face life with a moist smile, though her expression was a trifle more jaded than it was when she first emerged from the North Carolina hills and crashed Hollywood 13 years ago. Preening her finery, she allowed: "Men are necessary, definitely not evil." Trusting to her lawyers' discretion, Ava supposed that her divorce will be "on the usual grounds" (i.e., mental cruelty). Once free of each other, she and Frankie, like casual room mates, will simply pack up and go their own ways. The agreement: "He'll take what...
...reader follows Jean into a dissecting room, where he cuts up cadavers; a slum, where he meets a leper; a hovel, where he hears a baby "leave the mother's belly with a moist squelching sound"; a ward, where he observes a woman choke to death of slow asphyxia, and hears from the puffed lips of a badly burned man "the most piercing shrieks that suffering can ever have brought forth"; an operating room, where he watches a leg being amputated at the thigh as a little surgical saw bites splinters off the bone and the limb breaks away...