Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, surveyed Manhattan, recalled its aspect three years before, reported to his readers changes that struck him most: women weren't as good-looking as they used to be, but necklines plunged deeper. Analyst Churchill (whose occasional companion has been ex-Best-Dressed Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart) explained that the great beauties were all in Florida at the moment...
...everything to Harold Stassen, who hand-picked him as his successor when Stassen resigned as governor to enter the Navy early in 1943. Thus when Stassen decided that he could best further his chances outside the Senate, Ed Thye was ready with his candidacy. Stassenites had expected an obstacle: plump, vivacious Mrs. Myrtle Thye, who greatly enjoys being Minnesota's First Lady. There was gossip in Minneapolis that perhaps Harold Stassen himself had had a talk with her. There had been another point: there would have to be a strong candidate to succeed him. They settled on tall, teetotaling...
...remained a rip tide of political thought in the Republican sea. To be elected, La Follette had always to return to the G.O.P. But Fighting Bob believed that the nation would eventually embrace the Wisconsin Idea; he trained his two sons to follow; in his footsteps. When he died, plump, quiet, sleek-haired Bob Jr. went to Washington and took his father's seat in the Senate. Old Bob's second son, flashy Philip Fox La Follette, soon became governor. Both the La Follette boys were elected under the Republican banner...
Editor Connolly, 42, who looks like a plump, middle-aged baby, is the grandson of an admiral, and the son of an Army officer. He went to Eton and Balliol, where he studied the classics, served the late Logan Pearsall Smith as secretary and disciple, covered the Spanish war for the New Statesman. Rejected for World War II, he mounted the cultural ramparts instead...
...year-old dowager Countess of Inchcape (newspaper nickname: "Princess Gold") and eldest of the abdicating Raja of Sarawak's three marrying daughters,* prepared to marry a 49-year-old divorced Vermonter in London (and incidentally forfeit a $12,000 widow's annuity). The groom-to-be: plump Colonel Francis P. Tompkins, lifetime Army man, pre-D-day Counter-intelligence planning chief...