Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ETERNAL SMILE & OTHER STORIES (389 pp.)-Pār Lagerkvist-Random House...
...nothing if not resilient, continued to face life with a moist smile, though her expression was a trifle more jaded than it was when she first emerged from the North Carolina hills and crashed Hollywood 13 years ago. Preening her finery, she allowed: "Men are necessary, definitely not evil." Trusting to her lawyers' discretion, Ava supposed that her divorce will be "on the usual grounds" (i.e., mental cruelty). Once free of each other, she and Frankie, like casual room mates, will simply pack up and go their own ways. The agreement: "He'll take what...
...Malaya would do without Templer was anybody's guess. But the hard, lean soldier would not be forgotten. "Templer left his impression on the whole country," wrote a Malayan. "Perhaps he will be a legend in the kampongs. They will remember the spare, striding figure, the smile that lit the eyes...
Musical Momist. What is Liberace's magic? It could be merely the irresistible appeal of his shining mediocrity. But there is also his quality-which comes out in his bounciness, his sweet smile, his nasal voice, his my-oh-my prose style-of being just a big little boy. And a good boy, too, who would never swear or drink or leave his poor old mother while he ran off with some young hussy. Liberace is fully aware of this appeal. Says he: "Unfortunately, there are too many lonely mothers around today, deserted by their children when they need...
Promptly at 6:45 a.m. in Mammoth, Ariz, one morning last week, ten boys and girls climbed aboard a bright yellow school bus. Behind the wheel as usual sat smiling little (106 Ibs.) Mrs. Catherine Ann Royale, 53. But this time, as she greeted her passengers, her smile was strained. To everyone on board, the strain was understandable: the yellow bus was making its rounds for the last time...