Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exasperatedly says: "You've already got a choo-choo record." Then she scans the rack, and a nostalgic smile crosses her face as she picks up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The child sees his chance for a choo-choo record going glimmering, starts up a siren wail. For a minute, it looks like a stalemate. But the conclusion was never in real doubt. "All right, so we'll get both of them," sighs mother, and plunks down 50? for the pair...
Married. Diana Lynn (real name: Dolores Loehr), 30, dimpled movie ingenue; and Mortimer Hall, 32, president and general manager of Hollywood radio station KLAC; both for the second time (his first: Cinema Siren Ruth Roman); in Tijuana, Mexico...
...Ideal Toy Co.'s "Revlon Doll" ($11.95 to $25) is a fully-developed young siren (proportioned to 34-23-34) whose outfit includes nylon stockings, earrings, a bra. The doll is expected to be Ideal's biggest seller since the "Shirley Temple" doll of 20 years...
...lives badly lived and two not lived at all, and a glorious opportunity, on the stars' part, for virtuoso acting. Actor Portman changes as brilliantly from an enraged but powerless bull to a neatly clipped but bleating, lamb as does Actress Leighton from a hard, sick, glossy siren to a sick, quivering dowd. And, as staged by Peter Glenville, both productions are consistently adroit theater, full of gaudy character acting and authoritative ensemble playing...
Defense Rests. In Spring Lake, Mich., miffed at getting a speeding ticket that cost him $28.85, Norman DeVecht spotted a police car parked behind the city hall, was scheduled for another arraignment after he ripped off its siren, stop sign and red warning light, twisted a windshield wiper, bent a spotlight mounting, dented the roof...