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...location was the Barbary Coast, Technicolored to perfection in the midwinter sunshine; the set was a makeshift courtroom in the ancient Moorish palace that houses the U.S. consulate in torrid Tangier. On trial was Tangier's No. 1 manufacturer of nylons and lingerie: dapper Sidney Paley, 32, a spunky ex-G.I. from New Jersey known to his intimates as Nylon Sid. The charge: plotting piracy on the high seas...
...torrid, jungle-edge Mexican town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, 100 miles from the Guatemalan border, was abustle last week. Sleek sport cars, ranging from burly Mercédès-Benzes and lean Italian Ferraris down to the tiny French Gordini (a Simca-developed racing car), were tuning up for the third annual Pan American border-to-border road race. In addition to the 37 sport-car drivers entered, 64 more were ready to try their luck in a separate division for modified U.S. stock cars. Ahead of the racers lay 1,946 miles of torturous mountain roads and sun-baked...
...grace of her dancing. Since Miss Kaye is one of the country's foremost interpretive dancers, however, it's inexplicable why Jerome Robbins has her call out lines like "I need you" in the middle of a rather pretentious ballet scene. Another highly gifted performer, Maria Karnilova is a torrid Latin in Esther, an energetic vulgarity which set two priests next to me muttering about sin on the American stage...
That afternoon the governor was guest of honor at a monster cocktail party given by MGM's Production Chief Dore Schary. Hollywood offered comforting evidence that many a torrid summer romance with Eisenhower had ended in a reconciliation with the Democratic Party to which most screen people have been attached since New Deal days. Gathered on the Scharys' lawn were more than 600 of Hollywood's big fry. Moving through the crowd, Actress Lauren Bacall excitedly told of her shift from Ike to Adlai. "Bogie hasn't switched yet," she explained, "but I'm working...
Regular first baseman both this year and last, Johnson is a solid right-handed batter who finished the season with an average of .376 after a torrid start, which saw him hitting above .500 over the first few weeks of the schedule. Johnson's final mark placed him second on the squad list, behind catcher Captain Charlie Walsh...