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Wednesday, July 1961
Busty English Girl Isn't 'Comfy' in American Styles
NEW YORK—(UPI)—A busty British beauty queen with none of the demureness of Miss America and Miss Universe contestants said today that girls like Jacqueline Kennedy are unfair to girls like her by promoting high-necked fashions.
Caron Gardner, who sports the title of "Miss London By Night," has a 42-23-36 figure that just doesn't fit into a Jacqueline-type sheath that reveals only the collarbone. She's tried them and found them definitely "uncomfy."
"American women certainly aren't built like us English girls or else they're trying to flatten their figures," said blonde, 20-year-old Caron. "It's hard for a topheavy girl $ \textcircled{2} $ to get readymade clothes in this "Miss" at the
"These sheath dresses are too restrictive. I feel like a bag of potatoes about to burst in most of them. That's why I wear sleeveless, low-cut gowns. I even feel more comfy if they are backless."
Caron said she has become used to being stared at since she came here nearly six months ago to promote tourism in England, especially tours of London's nightspots. She got her title in a beauty contest at London's Latin Quarter "because I had been abroad a lot and speak French."
"Most American men do a double take when I tell them I am, "Miss London By Night," she said. "They think I'm a shady lady or something like that."
Caron said she has met very few American women but has made a wide acquaintance among the opposite sex in New York, Chicago and Miami Beach. She said her "many many dates" have led her to several conclusions about the American male:
- They're better looking and more muscular than Englishmen, "probably from all the sports you go in for."
- They're more generous than Englishmen and think nothing of taking a girl to cocktails, dinner, a play, and two or three nightclubs "all in one evening."
- They're friendlier than English-
men, who may still be calling a girl
—They're the frankest ever. A girl knows "just where she stands" because American men "lay their cards on the table in the first five minutes."
Caron thinks her biggest mistake was bringing a zebra-striped Bikini to America.
"The first time I put in on at a Florida hotel, all the men started to take pictures, then all their wives started to pose with me—just as though I were a freak," she said.
"Well, I'm really interested in nudism, I guess," she said. "I've spent one weekend in an English nudist camp and found it quite jolly."
Boy Scouts To Tour KU While on Stop
A busload of approximately 40 Explorer Scouts and leaders from Geneva, N.Y., will visit the University of Kansas enroute home from a two-week camping trip to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico.
Following their arrival Aug. 1, the Scouts will be taken on a tour of the KU campus, and they will have a swimming party at Robinson Gymnasium that evening.
The visitors will have their evening meal at the Kansas Union and will spend the night in Joseph R Pearson Hall. They will leave early Aug. 2.
Silks, Chiffons Take Spotlight
Balestra plans to keep the "as-ceding V-line" he originated last winter, marked by waistlines cut low at the front and sweeping up above the natural waistline at the back.
ROME—(UPI)—Balestra of Rome is presenting winter styles in light silks and chiffons, designed with an eye to America's well-heated homes and offices.
The new fashion season has begun with a new concept in shoes, a crisscross style which can be worn interchangeably on right or left feet.
This casual shoe is designed with a strap across the top of the foot to hold it in place. The front section is round and roomy so the big toe will fit into whichever shoe you happen to pick up first.
The style promises relief for women who have suffered cramped toes from the extremely pointed styles of recent years.
Sportswear includes many sweaters trimmed with fringes or tassles. One white after-ski outfit is decorated with many-colored tassles of plaited leather.
Leather also is being used for jump suits (one-piece skinny pants and fitted top), for sheath dresses, coats and for a playsuit made with Jamaica-length shorts and a scoop-neck bodice.
One all-white knitted outfit features fitted slacks and long-sleeved pullover, trimmed with a
Like Man, I Dig That Jail
DESIO, Italy — (UPI) — Mario Teruzzi, 35, is a real cool smuggler, and he likes it that way.
Teruzzi turned up at the local police station and said a court in nearby Como had sentenced him to 25 days for smuggling. He made note of the local heat wave and asked if he could serve his time in Desio Prison, which has a reputation for being cool.
Police obliged.
Movies To Be Shown Tonight
The first act features four brilliant ballet numbers, "Amazon and Milquetoast," "Turkish Lady and Prospector," "Bird Girl and He Man," and "Statue and Gambler."
In addition to the singing and dancing, Carol draws plenty of laughs with her hell-for-leather, straight-shootin', no-nonsense philosophy of life. Later, of course, she changes from a ragged, overall-clad female cowpoke into a charming and delicate young lady who realizes that the good life consists of feeding the
"The Voyage of Discovery" and "Through a Rear Window" will be shown tonight at the open-air theater at Robinson Gymnasium.
Carol Burnett Shines Brightly In Starlight's Calamity Jane'
The show opened before a packed house and will run through July 30.
The show will start shortly after 8 p.m.
Carol Burnett, currently starring in the Starlight Theatre production of "Calamity Jane," showed Kansas City audiences Monday night why she's one of the top singer-comediennes in the business.
The energetic Miss Burnett has an excellent supporting cast, including a talented ballet corps, but "Calamity Jane" is essentially a one-gal affair. I would not go so far as to say that the show would fall apart without her, but it's obvious that much of the color and "life" would be missing.
As far as the songs are concerned, there are plenty, all of them good. Perhaps the best are "Men," in which Miss Burnett ridicules males in general, and the beautiful "Secret Love" in which she displays a different attitude.
Other above average tunes are "Carless With the Truth," featuring Carol, Wild Bill Hickok (played by Norwood Smith) and the chorus: "I Can Do Without You," with Carol and Smith, and "The Black Hills of Dakota," sung by the entire ensemble.
Smith's voice is plenty to write home about, although he seems a bit overshadowed by Miss Burnett. Beryl Towbin, who plays Katie Brown, a young would-be singer-dancer from Chicago, turns in a fine performance as does Art Matthews, the dashing and handsome young army lieutenant.
husband and nursing the kids, not camping out under the chuck wagon somewhere on the prairie.
Miss Burnett is probably the most publicized of all the Starlight performers this summer, but I feel she richly deserves all this attention. She's got talent to burn, and anybody who hasn't seen her is in for a treat.
-Chuck Morelock
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single red punctuation mark extending from the top to the bottom of the sweater, ending in a black pompom.
Capes, flared skirts, longer suit jackets and tunic lines are also standout styles.
Improvements Set For Zone A Lot
Kansas Construction Co. of Lawrence was apparent low bidder Tuesday on a job to grade, curb, and pave an entrance to Zone A, located east of Carruth-0'Leary and J. R. Pearson hall.
The firm will also grade the lot, which now has an un-oiled rock surface. If weather permits, the improvements will be completed by Sept. 1.
"Five Branded Women"
plus
"Jack the Ripper"
plus two bonus features Saturday
Starts Sunday
Robert Mitchum
"Home from the Hill"
Plus
"Fever in the Blood"
"North by Northwest"
plus
"Green Mansions"
Cary Grant Tony Curtis "Operation Petticoat"
Starts Sunday
"Misty"
plus
"Freckles"
Starts Sunday Jerry Lewis "The Ladies Man"