Word: pageboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara Ann, with a peaches-&-cream complexion, saucer-size blue eyes and rosebud mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...
Destiny's Boy. Squatly handsome Gordon McRae, 26, believes that his career as a crooner was predestined: "I'm a very religious guy, you know. I believe that everyone has his own niche. . . ." From Deerfield Academy, destiny took Gordon to NBC as a $16-a-week pageboy. But he did not get very far, so the story goes, until CBS Board Chairman William Paley heard him sing...
...Attic cult in Paris, would be busy with salons on two continents. In Manhattan for his first visit in 15 years, Raymond was charmed with the place, planned to shuttle back & forth between Paris and Manhattan hereafter. "New York," said 72-year-old Raymond, his feet in sandals, his pageboy bob in a silvery fillet, "is like an old California mining town. ..." While he was at it he discussed miners. "The miners have a gun . . . and the public has to give up! ... Unions are fascist." He suggested living without coal...
...little old man, ex-Senator Daniel Hastings of Delaware who has served his Party for 15 years in many high positions, sat below the press box, glumly chewing a cigar, glumly watching the new party bigwigs, Dewey, Warren, Saltonstall, Dwight Griswold, et al. A young blond usherette, with a pageboy bob, strode up to him, said: "Hey, bub, you can't sit here!" Glumly he wandered off, looking for a friendly face, for a Republican who remembered...
...Murray Hill dinner), a strictly stag club with branches in Boston, Chicago and Akron. Its two officers bear strictly Holmesian titles: President Christopher Morley is Gasogene-&-Tantalus (Holmes kept his whiskey in a tantalus, his soda water in a gasogene); Secretary-Treasurer Edgar W. Smith is Buttons (pageboy in several Holmes stories). Franklin Roosevelt is an Honorary Irregular. This was the first dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars to which women have been invited...