Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether prodigious Gianella de Marco will really fulfill her promise as a musician is obviously a question for the future. But at week's end, with the London Philharmonic and the London public snugly in the palm of her hand, she was aiming at further acceptance. Gianella wrote a letter to "Cara Regina Elisabetta," inviting the Queen to attend her concert next week...
Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach...
...Palm Beach, McGranery hurried ashore from a yachting party to second the Apostolic Delegate's explanation. McGranery had received the information, he said, but had pigeonholed it since it had no bearing on the merits of the case. He had not thought it necessary to pass the word along to the White House or the Department of State. Then Archbishop Cicognani proved McGranery's point about the tenor of the exchange by sending a new message on the Pope's behalf to the White House-noting that more letters had been received at the Vatican, but still...
...Palm Beach was titillated by the off-again-on-again marriage plans of Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52-year-old heir of motor millions, who recently settled $1,000,000 on wife No. 4 so that he could take No. 5, ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood, 26. One of the reported spats occurred around vichyssoise time at lunch one day, when Gregg dropped the word that she had imported a Manhattan pressagent to help spread the tidings of her forthcoming wedding. This spoiled lunch for Horace, who fumed, "What am I, a dancer? I want publicity?" But on Valentine...
...prances up to the mike, Rosemary drops her cough drop into her palm, makes a moue at the control room and opens her mouth. If the tune has a bounce, her slim Irish face lights up and her trim, spring-legged figure jigs happily; her smile can be heard as well as seen. If the words are sad, her face takes on a little-girl-lost look. The moment her stint at the mike is through, she pops her candy back in her mouth, swigs at a bottle of Coke...