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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illustrator Joseph St. Amand staggered out of a Los Angeles cinema where he had just beheld legsome Susan Hayward in Adam Had Four Sons (see p. 93), summoned all his superlatives, and announced the formation of a "Perfect Legs Institute of America," for which he (and a corps of press agents) demanded that Cinemactress Susan be drafted as president. Geewhizzed Artist St. Amand, who envisages a comprehensive "Academy of Feminine Perfection" as a sort of penultimate holding company of compelling female corporeality: "Not only does she have perfect legs; she has the poise and the intellect necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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