Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Gisele MacKenzie (real name: Marie Louise Marguerite Gisele La Fleche), 31, pert TV songstress (the "voice of Canada"); and Robert Shuttleworth, 44, onetime Canadian bandleader who gave Gisele her first singing job, has managed her career ever since; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Some 550 ladies slogged through Washington, D.C.'s record snowfall (14 in.) to a luncheon where Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the Senate majority leader, got a "Togetherness Award," presented to her by pert Dancer Marge Champion. Lurking together in the background were the affair's cosponsors, McCall's magazine and the Hecht Co., the capital's big department-store chain. Among other women honored for exemplifying "togetherness" (defined by McCall's Editor and Publisher Otis Wiese as "our greatest natural resource"): Adele Rogers, wife of the Attorney General; Author Bonaro W. (Understanding Fear...
...Pirouetting through a flashing freestyle skating exhibition, New York City's pert Carol Heiss, 18, came so close to graceful perfection that she made fans of the judges clustered around the rink at Paris' packed Palais des Sports, easily won the women's world figure-skating championship for the third year in a row. In the men's competition, front-running Tim Brown capsized during a challenging caper, and Colorado's Defending Champion Dave Jenkins, 21, came back to win for the second straight year...
...this sturdy philosophy can lead to trouble. After running a color photo of a nude teenager, Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner was hustled into Chicago's domestic relations court on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Said police: brunette Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Hefner's pert Miss Playmate for January, was not a fetching college freshman of 18, as reported in Playboy, but a fetching high-school senior of 16, and thus, in the eyes of Illinois law, too young to appear unclothed in the public prints. Also charged: Mrs. Cathy Darnell, Elizabeth...
Married. Natalie Wood (real name: Natasha Gurdin). 19 pert, petite cineminx (Kings Go Forth) known as "the teen-ager"; and brown-haired Cinemale (the "bobby-soxer's delight") Robert (Prince Valiant) Wagner, 27; in Scottsdale, Ariz...