Word: swanson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clerk but John Lennon, 35, former Beatle, sometime writer, and culture hero without portfolio. He was wearing the straight threads for a solemn occasion, namely, the successful resolution of his 4½-year struggle to obtain permanent-resident status in the U.S. After such assorted character witnesses as Gloria Swanson, Geraldo Rivera and Isamu Noguchi testified to Lennon's public spirit and artistic significance, Immigration Judge Ira Fieldsteel awarded Lennon the long-sought green card bearing permanent resident No. A17-597-321. "It's great to be legal again," said John, whose problems with the Immigration and Naturalization...
...needed for this roman. Real stars parade by in abundance. Tryon also provides long lists of plausible but fictive movies and imaginary songs that set America humming (Ditto, Really Truly True). Even the four principal characters are amalgams of known personalities. Fedora owes something to Garbo, Dietrich and Gloria Swanson; lest readers think that she is any of these ladies, Tryon puts them all in Fedora's story...
Garry Trudeau's eating habits are not the signs of an eccentric cartoonist, but merely the eating habits of an un married college student. In my own apartment here at Cal State Fullerton you will find 13 empty bottles of Dr Pepper, six Swanson TV dinners, and in the freezer an open can of orange juice concentrate with a spoon...
...came as a shock. After all, I hadn't been married since the 1940s." Thus did Actress Gloria Swanson, 76, describe her marriage proposal from Writer William Dufty, 60. Married five times (among her husbands: Actor Wallace Beery), she first met Dufty more than a decade ago when he was an assistant editor on the New York Post. "He looked like a Buddha, all blubber," she says. Swanson, a natural-food fanatic, helped prod Dufty off sweets and onto a macrobiotic diet-and last week married him in Manhattan. "He's a convert of mine," boasted Gloria...
...junk food and Dr. Pepper. He is so casual about feeding habits that he keeps a can of frozen orange juice concentrate in his refrigerator and spoons out enough for one glass at a time. As a cook Trudeau is a great cartoonist. "I've moved rom Swanson's to Stouffer's," he says. "A sign of affluence, I guess...