The Rake

BIRD OF SORROW

If you know your Seinfeld, and you should, the name Dolores should raise a smile. It was, after all, the handle of a woman Jerry was dating whose name he couldn’t recall but knew rhymed with a body part.

There was little unforgettable about Dolores Moran. The 17-year-old with more rack than a Colombian marching powder factory first caught the eye, so the story goes, at the annual picnic held by the Sacramento Elks Lodge community group in 1941, where a kindly Warner Brothers talent scout decided she.

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