Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago in Cannes, Elsa Maxwell introduced Rita Hayworth (ne´e Cansino in New York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
...cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served a nervous trick as sentry. Behind him, a gaudily got-up billboard advertised the Cathay's latest feature attraction: I Wonder Who's Kissing...
...Sack Suit. The people are fascinated and curious to meet their ex-god in the flesh. Said a Nagasaki official: "No wonder the people are excited and happy. This is the first time they have really seen the Emperor. Before, we had to bow deeply when he passed. By the time we looked up he was already gone." In the country one old woman walked beside the Emperor for several minutes, staring at him in disbelief because he did not wear a uniform. Explained a Japanese journalist: "Now he is the sebiro no Tenno [Emperor in a sack suit]. Before...
...Spanish were furious, all the more so because, when Evita Peron visited Madrid two years ago, Father Benitez was a much sought-out member of her party. Madrid's press fairly sizzled. Ya wrote: "It makes one wonder whether the priest's mother had a weakness for a Frenchman." Editorialized Bilbao's El Correo Espanol: "A bilious and ill-adapted clergyman...
Loonies & Slinkers. Before his death in 1935, Weinbaum peddled his shockers to Wonder Stories and Astounding Stories for a cent a word. He could hardly have known that science-fiction fans would one day consider them classics...