Word: beau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only. Mainbocher's name is usually pronounced even by himself as if it were French (Main-beau-chez), but he is as American as blue jeans. He was named Main Rousseau Bocher (pronounced Bosher) when he was born 72 years ago on the West Side of Chicago. His mother wanted him to be a painter, his father wanted him to be a violinist, he wanted to be an opera singer. He had to change his plans when, just as he was about to go onstage for his debut in Paris, he lost his voice...
...line of chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit's American Electrical Heater Co. gave up appliances to concentrate on soldering equipment...
...report to their Hawaii farm team, Bo suddenly called the whole thing off. "Maybe he was jealous of my curves," sniffed Mamie. Maybe, but Belinsky was tossing strikes with Delaware's nifty Ricky D. E. du Pont, fortyish, widow of Millionaire Francis V. du Pont. Her new beau, she allows, is "a thorough gentleman." Bo says they are just friends, and adds that he is ready to play ball in Hawaii after all-unless he and Ricky decide to buy a nightclub together...
...women today," she said. "The men shouldn't complain." When she flew into Moscow for her official reception three days later, Valya was greeted by more flowers than anyone remembered ever having seen before in the Russian capital, a bear hug and kiss from Khrushchev, and her best beau, Bachelor Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev...
Landru. The New Wave, which surf-boarded French Moviemaker Claude Chabrol to fame in Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, is receding, and the beach is littered with reels of cinematic flotsam. A fair sample is this Chabrol film based on the macabre amours of Henri Desire Lan dru, a French antique dealer, who whiled away World War I by having affairs with 283 women, only 273 of whom survived...