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...middle thirties. His favorite device was to disappear suddenly from College midway through January Reading Period, just about the time his friends began studing in earnest. Then, on the day of his first exam, he would return, strolling into the examination room five minutes late, dressed in a light Palm Beach suit and heavily tanned. Sitting down next to a friend he would inspect his exam casually...
With your waist slim like the palm tree...
...palm-slim waist as well as the effusive adulation belong to a green-eyed, reddish-haired young woman in the bare shade of 30 named Ava Lavinia Gardner. Movie bigwigs, whose vocabularies are more limited, put their praises in calmer terms than Serior Cabre. But from the Olympian executives in the Bel Air hills to the plebeian pressagents down on Wilshire Boulevard, the consensus is that Ava Gardner may well turn out to be the best thing for Hollywood since the late Jean Harlow...
...decades ago Hollywood was Babylon cum Samarkand cum Coney Island. The mind swayed like a prop palm before a wind machine; reason lay limp on the cutting-room floor. Pola Negri walked her leashed leopard cub. through the streets; Bessie Love drove a lavender-colored limousine ; Marion Davies* brought a marble bridge from Italy to span her 80-ft., saltwater swimming pool; and Dolores Del Rio let it be known that she drank only from a golden chalice. Even discounting the pressagents' fevered imaginations, it was a wondrously gaudy existence...
Enter Frankie. The Gardner legend flourished-and so did her box-office value. Just 19 months ago Ava ran into Frank Sinatra at a party in Palm Springs (they had met for the first time years before). Ava and Frankie left the party together and, in high good humor, rode along the main street of nearby Indio, firing a revolver out of the automobile window...