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This time John Davison Rockefeller Jr. did not have to wait. He doffed his topcoat, jacket and vest, hung them on a hook on the wall facing the mirrors and four chairs, shouldered into a sweater held out by his chauffeur and sat down in Jim Corbett's chair. "Would you please close the door?" he asked. Rockefeller, who will be 83 years old next January, is troubled by drafts. He leaned back in the chair, a smock draped about his stocky frame, for the usual haircut and shampoo. Then he began to ply the barber with questions...
...American woman is not likely to be pushed into any radical bathing suits next year, but she may have to be pulled into them. Reason: skintight sweater-a nd sheath-like suits will dominate the 1957 lines. As the first fall showings got under way in New York last week, it was plain that bathing-suit manufacturers had taken their style cues largely from Broadway: a trend to the My Fair Lady look, with Empire bosoms, the half-shell bra, wide shoulder straps, Gay-Nineties stripes, and knee-length pants that can be rolled up for swimming...
...sincerely appreciated your May 14 story on Norma Jeane Baker Dougherty DiMaggio Monroe. Maybe Marilyn Monroe Productions will film the life story of this amazing girl; I'm sure M.M. would win an Oscar if it did. Suggested title: "Grushenka Monroe, 12-Year-Old Sweater Girl...
...Blue Sweater. At 11, Norma Jeane went to live with her new guardian, a friend of her mother's who could not always afford to keep her. In the next five years the child was batted back and forth from family to family. In all, she lived with twelve families, all poor. Once she was "sent back" because she made the lady nervous. Once she was happy with a goodhearted woman named Ana Lower. Once she lived in a drought area with a family of seven people; they all bathed once a week in the same tub of water...
...when Norma Jeane was twelve and getting sick and tired of her "county dresses" and the boys who called her "Norma Jeane the Human Bean," she borrowed a blue sweater from a girl friend. "When I walked into the class room," she says, "the boys suddenly began screaming and groaning and throwing themselves on the floor." In the schoolyard at lunchtime the swains stood around her three deep, and every afternoon after that there were a dozen bikes stacked along the curb outside her house. The neighbors were soon in a snit about "that little bitch." Norma Jeane...