Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...samples on this page indicate, the photographs trace Marilyn's growth from teen-ager to star, catching her in all of her many moods. "I wanted to show how she changed," says Schiller, "from pimples and pigtails, in and out of baby fat as she went through traumas." Schiller is preparing 30 copies of the exhibition to tour other U.S. cities, and he is also negotiating with several book publishers to reproduce it in a hard-cover memento of the Monroe magic...
Died. S. (for Stephen) Howard Young, 94, one of the world's wealthiest art dealers; in Manhattan. Born in Belle Center, Ohio, Young began selling prints throughout the Midwest while still a teen-ager and in three years accumulated $400,000. Wiped out by the panic of 1896, he started again by commissioning portraits of recently deceased rich people, then selling the paintings to the bereaved families. Later he began collecting paintings for wealthy clients, and finally established a hugely successful gallery in New York. His greatest coup was the discovery at an auction of the lost El Greco...
Isaksson actually began his athletic career as a gymnast, bouncing away with a brace of trophies in his native Harnosand. When he was a teen-ager he moved to Stockholm. "His first day there," his mother recalls, "he asked me if he could go to the athletic field in Sundbyberg. How could I say no? He came home later with two gold medals. He had won the high jump, and then borrowed a bamboo pole and won the pole vault...
...families continue to train them in an "education for life," emphasizing the "classical wisdom" of producing moral men. The state had contended that Amish children who left school before the statutory age of 16 could become burdens to the community. Testimony from previous appeals showed otherwise. No Amish teen-ager in New Glarus had ever been arrested for any crime; no Amish at all had an illegitimate birth or accepted any public assistance...
...Rock, Rock, Rock, a cheapie made in Brooklyn to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll craze of the '50s. Whatever its demerits, the film projected Tuesday as the archetypal nymphet, Shirley Temple with a leer. "The girl I generally played was a little whorish teen-ager who would sleep with anybody, and yet has a childlike quality," says Tuesday...