Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gorgeous George, 48, who got nowhere in professional wrestling as plain George Wagner until he changed his name, did his peroxided hair in pageboys and upsweeps, after which wrestling fans gladly paid him $70,000 a year for ten peak years in the late 1940s and early '50s to see him take his lumps from the regular guys; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Eventually Stavros, toughened by violence and more than ever obsessed with his American dream, learns to be cruel. In the film's most successful sequence, he courts a prosperous rug merchant's plain, pure daughter (Linda Marsh), planning to appropriate her dowry to buy a steamer ticket. He is tempted by the family's kindness until his prospective father-in-law (Paul Mann) describes the future: "You'll be old and I'll be old, and we'll sit here and drink and eat and undo the tops of our trousers and take...
...rain in Spain may stay mainly in the plain, but the golf balls are likely to land anywhere-just like at home. Still, Rita Hayworth, 44, finds it a lot rougher on the set of Circus World, where she is playing a sawdust star on the skids. The cast has already survived a boat's capsizing in Barcelona, a flood while on location in Toledo, and is getting ready for the big tent-fire scene at Madrid's Retire Park. So she heads for the Club de Campo with her 18-19 handicap to bash the pill around...
Endless publicity had made it abundantly plain: Actor Richard Burton had been in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for six months making a new movie, Night of the Iguana. Nor was it any secret that his wife Sybil had felt no urge to join him there. But last week Sybil Burton traveled to Mexico by proxy. A local lawyer appeared for her in a State of Jalisco court, and she divorced Burton for "cruelty." He will marry Liz Taylor "as soon as possible-the sooner the better," after she sheds Eddie Fisher. For Liz, 31, Dick will...
Down on Gin & Joyce. By the time Dunne got around to writing his memoirs in 1935 (published now by his son), he had given up Mr. Dooley, and his humor had soured somewhat. He wrote his memoirs in plain cantankerous English; there was less Irish charm and more Irish temper. To begin with, Dunne felt ill at ease writing about himself without Mr. Dooley as a shield: "Disrobing in public is not to my taste. There are intellectual and spiritual pudenda as well as physical. The more clothes I put on, the better I look. I plead guilty to preferring...