Word: soxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolgirl's uniform annoyed me intensely. There is nothing smarter than a box-pleated gym slip, fresh white blouse and colored tie. True, the stockings are not glamorous, but think of the English climate. Give me the English schoolgirl type to the overpainted sweater girl and sloppy bobby-soxer of the States...
Married. Natalie Wood (real name: Natasha Gurdin). 19 pert, petite cineminx (Kings Go Forth) known as "the teen-ager"; and brown-haired Cinemale (the "bobby-soxer's delight") Robert (Prince Valiant) Wagner, 27; in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...bedtime; the James Masons dragged their daughter Portland, 8, along to Dean Martin's show; and in filming her TV entry for this week, Gale Storm warbled to eleven-month-old Susanna, who promptly went to sleep on camera. Last week Frank Sinatra, 39, sang with his bobby-soxer daughter Nancy, 17, whom his scripters described as having the "sweet, cool disposition of a strawberry soda." Says Frankie: "A bit of show-business exposure goes a long way toward developing poise and self-confidence." Coming up on future Sinatra songfests: Frank Jr., 13, on the piano, and Christina...
...forbade him "forever" to wear its uniform. Some of the stains: last June's church-burnings; the "waves of idolatry" that Peron permitted for himself ("towns, houses, schools, prizes and even a province were given his name"); and "relations with a minor"-namely, Peron's bobby-soxer mistress Nelly Rivas (TIME, Oct. 10), with whom he "cohabited for two years in the presidential palace," starting when Nelly was only...
Aside from the moral problem involved, the fact indicates a flaw in the personality of Peron. A man who would choose a bobby-soxer must have an immature personality. No serious adult would prefer an adolescent to a mature woman...