Word: one-woman
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...formal separation from her nightclub-brawling, ex-Army-lieutenant husband, Pat di Cicco, 35, actors' agent. Married at 17, Gloria once observed: "What can one say of a first marriage except that it's wonderful?" Approaching her 21st birthday and a $4.5 million inheritance, she broke the news to Di Cicco by Manhattan-to-Hollywood telephone. Then she plunged with new determination into her painting career, in preparation for a one-woman show of still lifes...
...Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most matter to David Selznick, she is an indispensable one-woman pipeline...
...save them the grief and uncertainty." With poised, older stars like Bergman and Fontaine the problem is the same in essence but different in approach. With Jennifer Jones the problem is more immediate and pressing. Selznick has tied up an awful lot of money in her. Colby is his one-woman finishing school; she tutors Selznick stars and stock players as if she were a combination of Hattie Carnegie, Elizabeth Arden, Emily Post, John Powers and the Warden at Vassar...
...calling her a one-woman dance committee-doesn't come close to describing her duties. For example, she is in charge of Sherman Hall, where wives kill time waiting for their husbands, and the men may meet their girls. This task has recently skyrocketed, since Sherman serves 2800 people a month now instead of the former average of about...
This man Roosevelt has a miraculous talent for pushing Southern Senators to the verge of frustration. Ever since Jeanette Rankin did her one-woman stand in the House on that day, a little cabal of Congressmen and Senators has been sharpening its collective fangs in anticipation of the next wartime budget. They swore to high heaven that the "boondoggling peacetime agencies" would be slashed to the bone when the new estimates came up for approval, and chortled with glee when they thought of how a perfectly just demand for economy could be used to asphyxiate the New Deal...