Word: redhead
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...swirling eddy of interest around Ava Gardner is no fluke. Though Hollywood's rulers, whose egos are as tender as a redhead's complexion, are understandably reluctant to admit it, the movies have had to take up arms against a sea of troubles. Recovered from the first shock but still haunted by the specter of TV, beset by mounting production costs, harried by a falling box office, Hollywood is also facing an unexpected shortage in its most vital commodity of all-the mysterious attraction that everybody recognizes but no one has ever .been able to label more accurately...
Susan Hayward, 32, a pert-nosed, durable redhead who after 29 routine pictures is being molded to super siren parts. Her current picture: David and Bathsheba...
Professionals from other quarters are coming into Eisenhower's camp. Tom Dewey has already made a strong declaration for Ike (TIME, Oct. 23). Dewey's 1948 campaign manager, Herbert Brownell, has conferred with another top Eisenhower strategist, Pennsylvania's fiery redhead, Senator Jim Duff. One of Duff's jobs, among many others, is to keep Pennsylvania from going over to Ohio's Robert Taft, whom Duff supported in '48, after first trying to put over Arthur Vandenberg...
...makes a play for the landlady, a blowzy, bosomy redhead named Guinevere, who rambles on about past loves and lovers like a debased edition of Joyce's Molly Bloom. She teases, then repulses Mikey, ostensibly because of her husband McLeod, a gaunt, backslid Stalinist. Actually, she is having an affair with another tenant, Hollingsworth, a sadistic Government agent. A late entry in the sexual sweepstakes is Lannie, a Lesbian ex-Trotskyite with a touch of insanity who makes "strange" love to all but McLeod...
Beverly Baker, 20, a pert, sloe-eyed redhead from Santa Monica, is less singleminded. "I hate the grind of practicing. I don't like living out of a suitcase. In fact, I don't care much for traveling. I like home." But on the court Beverly is all business, takes quiet pride in the fact that she is the only player in big-time tennis who can shift hands for each shot: "I play a gambling game, looking for quick winners. Why drag a match out for two hours if you can get it over with...