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...giddy '20s, the prettiest birds of paradise who pranced across the stage of Ziegfeld's Follies and George White's Scandals were invariably festooned in confections of bangles and ostrich feathers whipped up by the designer known as Erte. He also created the lavish sets and languid costumes, trimmed with serpentine curlicues, that made some Metropolitan Opera productions beggar those of today. From 1915 to 1938, the lithe chiffon-draped mademoiselles that graced the covers of Harper's Bazaar were largely the work...
...autobiography, Football and the Single Man, the Green Bay Packers' sometime Golden Boy, Halfback Paul Hornung, 31, sounded as brave, clean and reverent as a Boy Scout. Said he: "I would still rather score a touchdown than make love to the prettiest girl in the United States." Hampered this season by a pinched nerve in his neck, Paul scored only five touchdowns. But at least he's got one of the prettier girls in the U.S. And in a few weeks, Paul, the swinger emeritus of the National Football League, will marry Dallas Model Pat Roeder...
...abduction from the seraglio is the prettiest piece of acrobatic larceny since the heist scene in Topkapi, and in the last reel Director Ronald Neame (The Horse's Mouth) contrives five trick endings in rapid succession that finish the film with a rousing funfare...
Françoise Hardy is perhaps the newest and prettiest star from France, but she says that she can't sing or act-and "to pick up a mirror is to become demoralized." Her modesty is becoming, and her countrymen obviously forgive her. At 22, she sells more recordings than any other French songbird; she has been put into films with some success by Vadim, and only men become demoralized by her figure...
...small town that Producer Disney constructed long ago on the back lot of his studio-that typical Midwestern town where the California sun is so hot that the lawns need a fresh coat of green paint every day. He gets a job in the general store and marries the prettiest girl in town (Vera Miles). Unfortunately, Fred and Vera don't have children-possibly because Fred goes trotting off on so many overnight hikes-but they do perform a numbing number of good deeds. All this, says the hero, is "the happiest life a man could have." Maybe...