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...World War II they had a long-stemmed favorite named Betty Grable. In Korea it was Marilyn Monroe, and now the pinup winner in Viet...
Divorced. By Betty Grable, 48, Hollywood's wartime pinup queen (Million Dollar Legs), now often gamboling on the Las Vegas stage (Guys and Dolls): Harry Hagg James, 49, once perhaps the world's greatest trumpet virtuoso, still tooting as a successful bandleader; on uncontested grounds of extreme cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Before eventually deciding that they are, Pierre sends Maman and Papa into a new spell of vexation by redecorating his room with a thousand pinup photos of statuesque Stella, a chanteuse he sees on television. A bigger-than-life cutout of Stella covers a tall chest of drawers. As a matter of fact, Stella's chest covers one of the drawers, and every time Pierre opens it, he adds spectacular new dimensions to Stella's bosom...
Television amateurs spend much time panning around their shacks and bragging about their equipment. They also give their audiences lingering shots of the supine fecundities of pinup girls. The squarer ones show off their wives, who used to hang around the shacks in curlers during the old radio days but now sit at their dressing tables for hours before joining their ingenious husbands on TV. Hams are not permitted to present entertainment, but they do show home movies and bring on relatives who play the harmonica, much as Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan do. One San Francisco ham likes...
Alongside Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth, Mauldin's stoic, unshaven pair took their pinup places in foxholes, tents and barracks all over Europe. The G.I. could richly appreciate the saw-toothed irony of Mauldin's cartoons. In one, a dog-tired and shambling Joe guards the three equally exhausted Germans he has flushed from some bloody pocket of the war. Mauldin's caption, inspired by a news dispatch: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners." A cavalryman sadly administers the coup...