Yours for: you tell me!
Title: Red Carpet for Mamie Eisenhower (Popular Library G164, 1956)
Author: Alden Hatch
Cover artist: photo!
- Note to Mamie — hire a portrait painter next time. You are lovely, but this photo makes you look like a girl nervously awaiting her prom date
- Love the Marilyn Monroe / stripper gloves. The bangs ... not so much
- I'm hoping "folksy" means something different than it does today (where it's code for "white and backwards")
Title: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (Hillman MF-1, 1961)
Author: Alan Levy
Cover artist: photo!
- Superior book design compared to the other two bios today. Love the font and alternating colors on the title, and the 90-degree tilt to the author's name. Plus, the photo's hot
- This book is numbered "MF-1," which would be a badass name for a private plane
- Yowza!
- I must tell you that Alan Levy is the "author of Operation Elvis" (acc. to the title page)
Title: There Goes What's Her Name: The Continuing Saga of Virginia Graham (Avon V2153, 1966)
Author: Virginia Graham
Cover artist: photo!
- "There goes what's her name ... you know, the one who looks like a drag queen with a tidal wave of shellacked hair..."
- I love the false modesty of the title. "Aw shucks, I'm a nobody but OMG HERE COMES MY NAME IN BIG YELLOW LETTERS!"
Page 123~ (from "... What's Her Name")
It is almost as unheard of to be sentimental in today's world as it is for a teen-ager to stand when an adult walks into the room.
Almost as uncommon as the hyphenated spelling of "teen-ager."
~RP
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