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Soon thereafter the Trib became lighter-if not brighter-by the departure of a dozen disgruntled top Trib hands, among them City Editors Joseph Herzberg and Fendall Yerxa, Pulitzer Prize-winning Correspondent Homer Bigart (who went to the Times). The revamping job turned the paper into a vamp, neither Times nor tabloid-nor Trib. By then the smallest of Manhattan's seven major dailies, the Herald Tribune earned the additional distinction of being the only morning paper that had a substantial weekday circulation drop: from a 1955 peak of 387,276 to 367,248 this year. And despite such...
...Eisenhower is "about the only man" who keeps on shortening rather than lengthening his write-up. Harry S. Truman keeps insisting that the S is a full middle name, thus should not have a period after it. † For Who's Who's 1920-21 edition, Movie Vamp Theda Bara proudly pointed out that her papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara, to conform with her screen name. During World War I Lady Randolph Churchill (néee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn) unaccountably failed to list Winston as her son. A correction from...
Died. John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 38, prolific Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...
...case, Marilyn Monroe's hip-flipping, lip-twitching, frolicsomely sensual figure is the latest curve on the path of erotic progress that has led Hollywood from the slithering vamp to the good-natured tramp. Her physical proportions (37-23-37) have become a vital statistic, and the poor little waif has become a big business; her last five pictures have grossed more than $50 million. Moreover, there is solid evidence that she knows how to run her business...
...Vamp-laid in the era when moviemaking shifted from East Coast to West-turns Carol Channing from a lummoxy farm girl to a reigning screen vamp, while getting in her way or following in her wake are up-from-corsets movie producers snakehearted ingénues, oriental shenanigans and Biblical films. But what chiefly ails the story is that it never really evokes 1914, or early Hollywood, or actual vamps; there is no fondness to its memories or sharpness to its stings...