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Article: PERSON OF THE CENTURY Oooo-la-la Lamour, but how about Hamerstrom? `Why not a lady?' Question lingered through decades
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1996
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Dorothy Lamour died at 81 on the first day of fall, snuffing out
my daydream of narrowing the gap between our ages. When I was 13
she was 26, and I was hell-bent on catching up. After gawking at
her sultry charms through three showings of "The Road to Singapore,"
I wished Bob Hope and Bing Crosby out of the picture so that when I
was old enough I could ask for her hand and all parts attached to
it, sarong-wrapped or otherwise, without interference.
From the silver screen she gave off more heat than Betty Grable,
Barbara Stanwyck, Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth, all in a row. Or
so I felt, and when the opportunity surfaced, I mailed 20 Dixie cup
lids to an ice cream distributor for a ...