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This year Unitarian Park, bald-pated at 73, retires at last from the active ministry. He will spend more time with his eight grandchildren and further develop his amateur virtuosity at printing ("I am an old-fashioned type plugger"), carpentry ("I stick to plane surfaces, straight lines, and right angles") and photography. But he and his wife plan to remain in Boston. "Whenever the congregation wants me," said he last week, "they'll just have to whistle...
Married. Harry Sayles Conover, 34, crown prince of U.S. model peddlers, plugger of "the well-scrubbed American girl"; and Candy Jones (real name: Jessie Wilcox), 22, his well-scrubbed No. 1 blonde cover girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in Hamilton...
...Russia's Andrei Gromyko: "Deadpan . . . plugger...
...bright, glossy Technicolored musicals which Darryl Zanuck dishes out several times each year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only really fresh face belongs to Frank Latimore, who plays Chicago...
Formula for Success. The current spectacular revival of Confessin' is a personal triumph for the nation's top-ranking woman plugger: Chicago's slim, blonde, big-eyed Harriette Smith. One of six pluggers assigned to Confessin' (one in Holly wood, four in Manhattan), 24-year-old Harriette has worked the Midwest mainly...