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...with an inexperienced three-man faculty and 18 boys, Kent School opened its doors in a ramshackle Connecticut farmhouse. Father Sill was vowed to lifelong poverty, chastity and obedience, but where Kent School was involved, he proved a shameless beggar, a tireless publicist, a resourceful promoter and a born teacher of boys...
...pint-sized, 45-year-old Billy Rose, The Seven Lively Arts is merely one more exhibit in a great glass-enclosed Hall of Showmanship already crowded with displays. Billy today is Broadway's most spectacular if least likely-looking impresario, in whose brashness, love of effect, and shameless pursuit of publicity lie real daring, an instinct for the effective, a canny knowledge of the public...
...committee. But objections soon poured in from such conservative Catholic sources as the 50,000 New York State Knights of Columbus and the 51,000 New York and New Jersey Catholic War Veterans. Sample complaint: "We should seek to promote morality and clean living rather than the open and shameless discussion of the checking of diseases contracted through sinful practices." The War Advertising Council gave up, announced that it would not urge advertisers to cooperate...
...could in two hours." For a while her best was reasonably good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless innuendos from her husky throat, Actress West caught some of the aplomb, humor and matchless vulgarity of her "Come up and see me some time." But pretty soon her unvaried role began to pull and so, soon after, did her unvarying way of playing...
Nothing has been able to prevent green-sick girls from swooning over Frank Sinatra. Aping their shameless sisters, mewling boys have begun to give the same treatment to Sinatra's partner on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade (CBS, 9 p.m., Sat., E.W.T.). It has been the best break that auburn-haired, delectable, showbusinesslike Joan Edwards ever...