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...since Scarlett did her deeds at Tara had a Southern plantation received such national notoriety. The President's golf score at Thomasville was low, his aim good, and his smile broad--indications enough for the pollsters and politicians that Eisenhower would run again. In all the will-he-or-won't-he discussions, however, there is one critical problem which seems to have gone with the wind: the effect of the President's decision on U.S. foreign affairs...
...first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea not only made his mark as a legal brain but even helped hire actors, e.g., Vivien Leigh for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. In 1950 he went over to CBS and back to New York to handle CBS's real-estate program. Now ex-Medical Student O'Shea hopes to breathe new life into Hollywood's sickest studio. ¶Herbert A. Kent...
...other discernible order; the last one was rumored to have been awarded the anchor position because "she got to more rehearsals later than anybody else." After she was seated, the orchestra struck up the first of the cotillion figures, the Coming-Out Waltz (original music and lyrics by Virginia Scarlett, daughter of Mrs. Eugene Ong, co-chairman of the ball). The lyrics: We're coming out tonight We're having our fling Debs dressed in yards of white Waltzing we sing 'cause Beaux flock around tonight Flowers are part of the scheme Tomorrow may be just another...
...valiant defender of her virtue as its coy auctioneer, shrewdly holding out for the highest bid. Fielding's Shamela is an honest doxie who blats about her "Vartue" from time to time, but belongs essentially to the long line of fiction's profiteering amorists reaching to Scarlett O'Hara and Amber...
Frenchmen who still pictured the South as a Scarlett O'Hara land of cotton plantations and Negro mammies were put wise: "To tell the truth, we did not see much cotton in the South. What we saw was oil, natural gas, helium, steel, magnesium, atomic energy and chemical plants." The Gossets were impressed with the advance of Negro education; they called all-Negro Howard University (in Washington, D.C.) "more modern than the average European university." To the French reporters, the Vieux Carre of French New Orleans was a fake-with its "pretentious airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps...