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...festival." As the humidity mounted on the sticky streets, the egregious slogan was resurreced at an air-conditioned Waldorf-Astoria luncheon, and a new queen was anointed by the mayor. Unable to locate a sinuous native girl to lend a straight face to the propaganda, the Visitors Bureau tapped radiant California-born Model Peggy Jacobsen, 22, summoned its hard-selling ex-president, Midtown Merchant Bernard Gimbel, to seal the deal with a kiss. Whatever his pitch may be, this was one time Gimbel would tell it to Macy's-along with everyone else...
...wife and the bride's mother, handling the arrangements, one can expect grace and polish. But otherwise, it is a Nytol nuptial. Where the 1958 Broadway play (by Samuel Taylor "with" Cornelia Otis Skinner) set in motion a sea of social-comedy soap bubbles-light, radiant and pleasantly airy-and kept them afloat, the film merely brains its audience with broad gags...
...accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris." President Kennedy was not exaggerating: in the eyes of the world, his talks with Charles de Gaulle might take on historic significance, but to the people of Paris their deliberations were secondary. From the moment of her smiling arrival at Orly Airport, the radiant young First Lady was the Kennedy who really mattered...
...drawers. Part of the way up was an "internal street" of shops, and on the roof was a garden made up, not of plants and trees, but of sculptured shapes surrounded by a parapet that shut out all but the sky and the mountaintops. Corbu called the building a "Radiant City," its garden "a landscape worthy of Homer...
...Frame after frame full of German men and women radiant with uncritical adoration of the man who, by 1945, had caused the deaths of 50 million people...