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...writers, Godfrey said: "They just write those little cards I read from. I don't need writers unless I can find some with new ideas." After his hard day's work, Godfrey left his office on crutches (a hangover from his 1953 hip operation), accompanied by a pert young secretary. "Who's the lady with you?" asked a reporter. Godfrey showed all his teeth. "She's my mother." So saying, he hopped into his black Cadillac, threw the crutches in the back seat and drove off for a quiet weekend...
...that last week it was being syndicated to some 150 newspapers, from Manhattan's tabloid Daily News to the Sioux Falls (S. Dak.) Argus Leader. It is George Clark's fond hope that every reader will recognize his friends (and himself) in the everyday lives of the pert housewives, harassed males and wide-eyed moppets in "The Neighbors...
...notes that were too low for him, Soprano Zinka Milanov let her voice swoop and squawk through Act II, and when she flipped a disguising shawl over her face, she looked so much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees, and men and women in the audience wept...
...contrast to Miss Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor adds a bright and pert performance. A few pounds lighter and no longer sassy, she is pleasing for the first time. Another member of the Dailey-Merman family is Johnnic "Cry" Ray, surprisingly cast as a religiously serious showman who becomes a priest. Although his chin wags abnormally when he sings, Ray's style is unique and entertaining...
...private rendezvous with Josane in his Manhattan apartment, the brand-new Brando emerged to pose for photographers in a green Tyrolean hat that suspiciously resembled a homburg, and he comported himself as if he were a rising young banker about to catch the 5:17 for the suburbs. Josane, pert with her carelessly gamin hairdo, looked a trifle moonstruck-but also like a fisherwoman sure of her catch. While in conference with his fiancee, Brando had changed the wedding date: the wild bells would now ring out some time this month...