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...Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style, by Miss Temple's real-life husband, John Agar...
Last July, when Garnet Coulter, 65, played host to the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, he gallantly and persistently squired the Federation's Executive Director Jessica Allan, 43, around town (TiME, July 21). Winnipeggers put it down to official business. But when the pert Montreal divorcee stayed on for a few days, Winnipeggers began to swap nods and becks and wreathed smiles...
...Pert, plump "Merry" Geissmann, 36, daughter of a Columbus (Ohio) manual arts teacher, has several other success notes in her style book. She has designed furniture and simple dress and accessory patterns. Her biggest success was the Merry Hull "Finger-Free Glove," with three-dimensional fingers to eliminate cramping. In ten years she has collected $200,000 in royalties...
...band manager Walter J. Skinner '48, pert little Priscilla Cook might have led the "best in the business" into the stadium this week. As it was, she brushed the teardrops from her eyes last night and asked herself why nobody wanted her. B.U. had started all her troubles when bandsman Warren Freeman decided his cohorts could do without her and offered her to the Jawn Harvards...
...recognized by the French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...