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...Also last week he learned that he was the object of a nightclub torch song called I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Singer: pert Texas Redhead Carol Burnett, 24, at Manhattan's Blue Angel. Sample lyrics (by Ken Welch...
...feminine fashion (oxford shirts, cut-down chinos, cuff links), something new has been added. Perched on pretty heads all along the East Coast, the man's straw is this summer's last word. Sales of the soft straws, reported conservative Brooks Brothers, have been "amazing." Said a pert teen-ager at Long Island's Southampton: "This year you're behind the times unless you're wearing a soft straw...
Married. William S. Girard, 21, gawky U.S. Army Specialist Third Class, who set off an international legal battle over G.I. rights overseas by killing a Japanese woman in an Army firing area last January, and Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, pert Japanese divorcee; in the Camp Whittington chapel, 60 miles from Tokyo...
...give some measure of hope to the 70,000 girls that are born each year in Greece, King Paul and his pert, social-minded Queen Frederika have worked out a new kind of welfare-state benefit: dowries for all. Urged on by the King and Queen, 132 citizens' committees all over Greece have conducted drives to raise money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from...
...Pert Ethel Kennedy, wife of the chief counsel to the Senate's rackets probers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), took her kiddies to the capital's current big show, their daddy's relentless untangling of the Teamsters Union's knotty finances and snarled ties. To the children-Kathleen, 5, Robert Jr., 3, and Joseph, 4-it was often a circus as Ringmaster Robert Kennedy cracked dossiers like whips and fired questions like pistol shots. If sometimes the kids fell into daydreamy boredom, it was perhaps because they missed the main event-a performing bear named Dave Beck...