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...bound traveler or the back-yard barbecuer, vacation separates are the perennial favorite. To stay comfortable and versatile, the vacationer can wear a one-piece playsuit with an accompanying skirt--on the beach, skirt off; for a lunch date or shopping jaunt, skirt...
...wrangler is a nobody on a horse . . . with bad teeth, broken bones, a double hernia and lice." The self-description sits James Cagney, the bad man of the title, like Cagney sits a horse. The actor is now 52, but what a hoss-bustin', man-killin', skirt-rippin', jug-totin' buckaroo he can still believably pretend to be. He runs horses on his range, hangs rustlers from his trees, and keeps the home fires burning with a plenty hot number (Irene Papas) who smokes wicked little black cigars between the acts. "I want you feisty!" Cagney...
...with her six brothers and sisters, grew up in the jungle of Manhattan's Lower East Side. When she was 13 her father died, and Hattie went to work as a messenger in Macy's basement. Even then, rotating a wardrobe of one skirt and three blouses, she had style and taste. Rose Roth, a neighborhood seamstress, noticed it, and persuaded Hattie to model Roth dresses at the theaters and restaurants where her beaux took...
Having risen to fame and fortune (almost $500,000), Sophia has never overcome her childlike delight at posing for photographers. She once held her skirt up so high for a picture on the cover of the weekly Cronache that the Italian police confiscated the entire edition...
...school authorities hit upon a compromise that, if it did not put Shirley entirely at her ease, at least saved her health and the school's sense of propriety. Henceforth, as long as the wintry blasts blew, Shirley's costume would consist of slacks topped by a skirt...