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...grandmother Carver, who lives in a first-floor room of the big white house and knits delicate white bedspreads for her young relatives. There on a visit may be Joe's married sister, Mrs. Donneita Lampley. At the supper table too will be Joe's mother, pert, determined Thelma Ashley Carver Moore, now 44, who, in addition to her heavy household duties, holds down the job of Jackson County School Supervisor. She still finds time, once a year, to pack her husband into a car and go on a long trip (several years ago Joe quit going along...
...prison in the little Normandy town of Pont-l'Evéque were an unimaginative crew-mostly drunks, chicken thieves, wife-beaters and petty racketeers-and their prison life was as dreary as their crimes. Then, on a certain hot afternoon in July, a new warden took over. Pert as a pouter pigeon, rotund little Fernand Billa was a jailer less interested in penology than in poetry and strong pastis (a variant of absinthe). With plenty of verses and good drink to hand, Billa could find even a prison wilderness paradise enow...
Married. Barbara Ann Scott, 27, Canada's pert, blonde 1948 Olympic figure-skating champion, star of the Hollywood Ice Revue (1952-55); and Tommy King, 31, press agent for Chicago Stadium Sports Enterprises; she for the first time, he for the second; in Toronto, Canada...
...Suzy Volterra, 38, a pert, blonde Parisian widow, was not exactly a plunger. When her bay colt Phil Drake went to the post for the 176th running of the English Derby at Epsom Downs last week, it had the bright red and white of the Volterra stables on its back and only $56 of Suzy's money on its nose. With fine French caution, Suzy also bet $14 insurance money on the Aga Khan's Hafiz...
...usual, with a full, beautiful voice, but this is the first time I have seen her completely relax in her acting--and the result is most charming. Her sister is played by Linda Latter, whose singing is clear without being shrill, and who is perhaps best described as pert. Their gondolier lovers are Paul Sperry and James Greene; both sing with energy and clarity, combining amazingly well on the difficult duets...