Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywood Legman Joe Hyams, Jayne, bubbling over her first film stardom ("Everybody calls me Miss Mansfield") in a movie to be released under the titillating title of The Girl Can't Help It, modestly explained what the "It" stands for: "Sex appeal, what else? This girl I play has the most fabulous body in the world, but she's unaware of her sex appeal. All she wants to be is a wife and mother, but sex keeps getting in the way. She's like me, you might say." Collaring...
...sex necessary on newsstands? Most U.S. citizens are content to leave the problem to the courts. But many an outraged parent is not inclined to wait for the slow-grinding mills of the law to protect his children from cheap and easy smut. The result may be a well-intentioned pressure group that tries to boycott and bully all available reading matter down to a soap-opera level. Writing in the current issue of Harper's, Editor John Fischer thinks he has found just that in what he calls "a little band of Catholics . . . conducting a shocking attack...
...biggest clamor of all was made by London's press, which gave him voluminous space. The tone was set at a monster press conference at a Piccadilly nightclub when a reporter bluntly asked: "Do you lead a normal sex life?" Without a quiver in his professional smile, Liberate answered softly...
Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...
...also nice to know that our ill-gotten money will be used nobly to enlarge a few delegates' capacity for sin, sex, and sadism at the National Convention. I have worked on Student Councils for the past three years and attended national as well as regional conventions. Nothing constructive ever comes of them. Nothing ever will. It is inherent in their ephemeral nature. Nothing the Council will do, assuming it will do anything beside buying its members season tickets to Durgin Park, could waste money in a more fruitless manner...