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...year-old Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who makes things unpleasant for the British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell to America, joyous peasants stand...
Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, co-author of the bill, cried that Ike was "insinuating that the Senate was subverted." Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender rose in bellowing defense of the President, crashing his meaty fist upon the desk with such force that a pageboy darted forth to rescue a nearby glass of water. Some Northern Republicans, e.g., New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who had voted for the bill, looked nervously toward their gas-consuming constituencies to watch how the voters would react to Ike's charge of impropriety...
...actors, too, were chosen for their resemblance to the comic-strip characters. Robert Wagner, in a pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...
Sixpence a Week. Ernie (not even at Whitehall would anyone have thought of calling him Ernest) had once been a drayman's boy himself, and a shop clerk and a pageboy and a tram conductor into the bargain. An orphan at six, he had gone to work at ten as a farmhand for sixpence a week, and promptly struck for higher wages. The strike failed. Ernie was fired. Soon afterward he got another job at a shilling a week, plus a bonus of jam on Sunday for reading to his new boss out of Hansard's parliamentary reports...
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...