Word: stuns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is a swing version of the Little Annie Rooney that curly-locked Mary Pickford played to the last tear drop 17 years ago. Shirley is a modern jitterbug from the other side of the tracks. Her talents so stun a rich Manhattan youngster (Dickie Moore) that he invites her to his socialite birthday party. Clad in a glistening, gold-spangled evening dress, Cinderella Temple jitterbugs her way into the Social Register hearts of her boyfriend's parents...
...those whom it does not stun or kill, disaster brings a spasm of new growth. Mrs. Kennedy is keenly conscious of this process, which gives meaning to the word immortality in a line (from her brother's epitaph) that keeps running through her mind: The reward of fortitude is immortality. Her book shows a whole nation earning that reward...
...small part of Chip's success is due to Evie Robert, his second wife, a stun ning blonde, tall, blue-eyed and smart. She loves parties, horses and publicity. After their marriage in 1935 they became the glamor boy & girl of the New Deal. Chip became secretary of the Democratic National Committee, a job which pays no salary, involves no duties. But there were some people in Washington who thought that even this phantom post might be useful to Chip Robert. One day last week a fellow Georgian, Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, read into...