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Married. Tyrone Power Jr., 24, sleek cinemacting scion of an Anglo-Irish stage family; and Annabella, 26-year-old French cinemactress (real name: Suzanne Georgette Charpentier) ; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Paris publisher, blonde, pert Annabella got her cinema name and fame as a protégéé of French Director René Clair. Once-widowed, once-divorced Annabella and Bachelor Power became friends last year during the filming of Suez...
...pioneer artist is Italian-born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing. Almost all other young illustrators are practiced hands at the slim, distracting figure - a subject which nearly monopolized this...
...nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...
...pilot put her nose downhill through the overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...
...easel, squinting at her, measuring her with his thumb, dabbing at his canvas so laboriously and long that Kiki was sure he had painted a good likeness, he declared his work done. Kiki ran around and looked at it. He had painted a great, bleak barn. "Perhaps," says catlike, sleek, sophisticated Kiki, "perhaps it was my farm-girl appearance...