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...know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent beer." They suspect that she is lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes as the women's equal-rights amendment, for which she has lobbied tirelessly for years. With unconscious wistfulness, she explains: "Only the busy person is happy...
Like a dying whale, the monster Academy shindig saved its mightiest thrash for last: to everyone's astonishment, Loretta Young was named (over Competitors Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Dorothy McGuire, Susan Hayward) the year's best cinemactress for her blonde-braided lady-politicking in The Farmer's Daughter. Gurgled Loretta, who had never been...
Most Dubliners, regarding the show as a mere Sassenach shindig, stayed away. Some attended for a side attraction: "We go for the cigarets," said a Dubliner, who explained that tobacco was short in town, and the horse show was the sort of place where smokes might be handed round...
...body, but everybody seemed to have previous engagements. The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith showed up, though, to say that Bilbo was "the most persecuted man in the world." The Man himself wasn't talking: his mouth was still bandaged from a recent operation. But after the shindig the bandages parted and in popped a cigar...
Another statesman making his mark in the musical arts was Trygve Lie. On the dance floor at a refined shindig for U.N. employes, the Secretary-General cut a lot of fine figure...