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...spring of 1967, when he brought the girl, whom he planned to marry, down to the farm to meet his family. At first, he said, his fa ther loved Ella Jean "like a daughter-in-law." Later, the elder Saikin developed a different kind of affection for the pret ty but not too bright girl, who had man aged to cram a lot of living into her short life. Before the end of the sum mer, the father was escorting Ella Jean to her room each night where they would give each other "rubdowns." He was also checking on Ella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Between Father and Son | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...stunning wife Imelda, Miss Manila 1954, who, at 36, is still so pret ty that the latest Filipino entry in the Miss Universe contest could declare without diplomatic deference that at least one woman in the islands was better-looking: the President's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Formula from the Philippines | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...Lamarr ("What I'd call a heavy leg ... good construction") ; 2) Alexis Smith ("willowy"); 3) Ray Bolger ("A good dancing leg ... Legs don't have to be a woman's to be beautiful"); 4) Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson; 5) and 6) Citation; 7) Jane Russell, whose pret ty legs have been "overshadowed"; 8) a Chippendale chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled Times | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor to do, by making him something of a jaunty rake and something more of a sophisticate. His Iago was decidedly not one of unalloyed evil and superior intellect. The other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

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