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...hillbilly Peyton Place called Claremore, Certain Women offers armchair Peeping Toms seven separate women to leer at. Vicki is a reformed prostitute, happily married to a filling-station owner named Jeff. Unfortunately, Jeff has to spend every other night at the filling station, so that when one of Vicki's pistol-packing admirers comes around looking for his "special baby," there is no one to protect her new-found honor. Louellen is an erstwhile tomboy who has budded into overnight femininity, but none of the local boys will give her a tumble until a traveling salesman plays hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hillbilly Peyton Place | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

David James Douglas, 38, seventh Baron Nugent of Clonlost. is six feet of muscle, charm and upper-class English accent. He was hand-picked in Britain last summer from a crop of 18 eligible noblemen to star in a filmed TV series with U.S. Singer Vicki Benet (TIME. Aug. 1). Since his arrival in Hollywood last month for the filming of the show, he has been getting the standard treatment of cocktail parties, press interviews and deals with advertisers (in exchange for a few publicity photos, Chrysler Corp. put a Dodge at the baron's disposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Who's a Peer? | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...would matter. Is Farouk Mr. Farouk because he lost his kingdom?" But a spokesman for Burke's ruled sternly: "Until the title is formally restored, it cannot be recognized in Britain." In Hollywood, TV Producer Jack Elliott, who is putting together the Baron Nugent-Vicki Benet series, took a meat-and-potatoes view of the case: "The show has been put off until this thing gets cleared up. We don't want to put our backers in a spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Who's a Peer? | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

From Soap to Beer. One nobleman wrote Vicki: "I am prepared to plug anything from Coca-Cola, which I don't drink, to the Democratic Party, though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Blonde & the Peers | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Lord Nugent's assets, according to Elliott: "Autocratic bearing, beautiful speaking voice, wonderful, pure Oxford accent, good-looking." Added Vicki: "Well-built, quick-witted, fine sense of timing." With the deal closed, Elliott relaxed in his hotel room, happy with the thought of peerless plugs for "everything from soap to beer." As the phone kept ringing, he reached for it, murmuring, "I have no time to do anything but brush off peers." But Vicki seemed sorry that the contest was over. "They've all been perfect gentlemen," she sighed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Blonde & the Peers | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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