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Threatened with expulsion from Nebraska's Catholic Duchesne College unless she sticks to the no-bathing-suit ban, blonde Mary Jean Belitz, 18, last week gave up her Miss Omaha title. To Mary Jean's mother, the ban was bewildering: her pert (36-24-36) daughter had often appeared in the briefest drum-majorette costumes without causing church disfavor...
...alcoholism at 46. There was her friend Zaza who overtaxed herself trying to be Simone's fellow freedom fighter against parental cant; when she died of meningitis, "I believed that I had paid for my own freedom with her death." And then there was Stépha. pert. Polish and feminine, who taught Simone to look at love more realistically and also to look in the mirror. Simone was a slob. She admits: "I hardly ever brushed my teeth and never cleaned my nails." Stépha played Professor Higgins to Simone's Eliza Doolittle. After...
...Pleasure of His Company. An engaging overage playboy, Cyril Ritchard, decides that his pert daughter and her pedestrian fiance do not qualify for a marriage of true minds, and he promptly supplies the impediments...
...runs three separate letters columns in each issue, often finds ideas for features in the morning mail. Particularly fruitful is a special section called "The Farmer's Wife," the vigorous vestige of the magazine Farmer's Wife, which was bought by the Farm Journal in 1939. Under pert Editor Gertrude Dieken, who was raised on an Iowa farm, the section has its own inside cover, draws up to 1,500 letters a month, most of them written as though to a close friend...
...jaunt with Grandmother through an exotic bazaar in Beersheba, Israel, pert, 16-year-old Nina Roosevelt* spied the cutest souvenir ever, begged Grandma to bargain for it with the canny Bedouins. Obligingly, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt shelled out $77 for a scrawny baby camel (named "Duchess" by Nina), which, if Daddy approves, will stalk the Roosevelts' Hyde Park estate until it gets big enough to deserve permanent residence in any interested...