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Word: duskin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Kids (Richard Williams, 13; Harve Fischman, 12; Ruthie Duskin, 8; Joel Kupperman, 6) won in a walk, the victory was no great credit to them or to their sponsors. Most of the questions were pedantically dull, and neither side made a respectable showing. No one knew what an "isometric equatorial projection of a loxodromic curve" was, or seemed to care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Midget Euclid | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...still her largest, wholesale customer, California's I. Magnin chain of high falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: No More Nettie | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Married. Comedian Mischa Auer, 36; and Singer Joyce Duskin Hunter, 25; each for the second time; day after his wife Norma Tillman's divorce became final; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Field Sally Allen, Rochester, N. Y.Edward S. Fitzgibbons Peggy Dorson, LasellRobert D. Gauchat Jean Grant, LasellHal C. Gregg Lois Williams, ErskineArthur Gutterman Judith Weisberg, Julia RichmondAlbert C. Kelly Midge Wolfe, WellesleyThorn Kissel, Jr. Barbara Case, VassarJohn W. Klages Marjorie Davidson, SmithRobert A. Koch Muriel MacChesney, VassarDaniel K. Levin Phyllis Duskin, New York, N. Y.Leonard Levin Betty Ziff. Greensburg, PennArthur Maling Paula Berwald, WellesleyStuart McCarty Jane Patterson, ErskineHugo Monnig Elizabeth Stockstroom, BenningtonGrover O'Neill Mary Taylor, Sarah LawrenceMurray Pendleton Barbara Birch, ArlingtonDonald Pitkin Edith Hall, WinsorHarold Rosenblum Carol Flarsheim, Brookline, Mass.Russell A. Sibley Virginia Marston, WinsorRobert H. Smith Elsa Walker, ErskineHarold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 COUPLES TO ATTEND JUBILEE | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

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