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Women softballers are nothing new. Scattered throughout the U.S. are some 40,000 semi-pro teams sponsored by breweries, taverns, bakeries, big industries and little individuals with a yen to see their names sprawled across the satin backs or sweatered fronts of cavorting U.S. tomboys. On Softball's miniature diamond (bases are 60 ft. apart instead of 90) and aided by Softball's underhand pitching, girls can pitch, bat, field grounders, otherwise perform like a reasonable facsimile of the male...
...Saturday night Eleanor Roosevelt, wearing a grey satin evening gown, stepped into a limousine, swooshed out of the slushy White House grounds. Two police motorcycles preceded the First Lady on her customary whirlwind sweep of the President's Birthday Balls...
London got a breath of Hollywood when Cinemablonde Carole Landis married U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Thomas C. Wallace in a little church off Piccadilly Circus. For her third marriage the 24-year-old bride wore an inviting package of white satin and tulle, carried white orchids and carnations. Maid of honor was Dancer Mitzi Mayfair. The church crawled with reporters and photographers, who bustled down the aisle after the happy couple, went to work from prominent positions along the altar rails. The groom mumbled his lines, but the bride was in good voice. Afterwards on the church steps flash...
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Some of the brigands of thought were led by Poet Théophile Gautier, who wore a scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round...