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...Chase Manhattan Bank; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A Yale dropout, Rockefeller was an oilfield roustabout and Army infantryman before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually became the state's biggest booster and leading Republican organizer. Adopting western boots and a straw hat as his trademark, Rockefeller brushed aside charges that...
...reckless private conduct over the years kept him in political hot water. His first two marriages-to Showgirl Isabel Washington and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott-reflected Powell's affinity for glamour. His conquests were many. Some, like Yvette and his former-beauty-queen secretary, Corinne Huff, were even put on his staff payroll and paid $20,000 a year. In 1963 Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, won a $46,500 defamation judgment against Powell, who on TV called her a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. For nearly five years he managed to avoid payment, partly by staying...
Janie Cottrell, 24, sank into her sofa in a pair of dark blue hot pants, crossed her showgirl legs and said, "I wanted to be a certified welder more than anything in the world." Which is just what she is. Janie graduated from Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., in 1965, decided to enroll in a business course at the local vocational school. "I didn't like any of it," she says, "especially the charm course. One day in the cafeteria the welding teacher walked by and said, 'What's the matter? You look like...
...soon as she opens her mouth and begins strutting around the stage, the image?and some of the movie's credibility?goes happily haywire. Her liquid, throaty voice rises stylishly from a caress to pure, ringing brass. Her body?a broad-shouldered 5 ft. 5 in. with long showgirl legs?weaves a rhythm of its own even when she is standing still...
...characters in Village Wooing are both well played. Natalie Lombard as the vacuous showgirl gives a good rendering of a cardboard role, and Martin Andrucki is sufficiently pompous as the guidebook writer. The acting in Fables, on the other hand, is an almost unmitigated disaster. Delia Sang gave a good performance in the first and third fables, but almost everybody else was uniformly awful. As bad as the script was, there were places, like the fourth fable, where the acting made it worse. But by then, no one gave a damn...