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Gertrude Stein, whose expatriate thoughts at 72 have been turning homeward, had a couple about G.I.s: "You know, those G.I.s kept pinup girls all over the walls of their barracks-like religious icons. They idealized women, but, when they walked the streets of Paris, many of them would be drunk and would leer at and insult almost every woman they met. American boys are virginal, for only virgins would act that way. They liked the German women. When they made love to German women, the German women did all the work, like cows they did all the work...
...first impression of anticlimax soon gave way to serious comments. Said London's News Chronicle: "Nothing could detract from the essential solemnity of the occasion-not even the vulgar high spirits that . . . painted on this instrument of fate the picture of a pinup star 'in a low-cut gown.' We cannot defy history by guffawing in her face...
...Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup* sued by Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzue) for $35,000-odd (she took his gifts and then ditched him, he complained), made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous...
There had never been anyone like her. Tall and lissome, she was an authentic pinup, talked crisp service slang, acted the way G.I.s wished all girls did. And she preferred enlisted men, called all her eager admirers "general" or "admiral...
Heavy Favorite. In San Francisco, anchoring a theater-lobby photo of Lauren Bacall in a 200-lb. block of concrete failed to keep the wolves at bay: they took the concrete along with the pinup...