Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN LINDSAY. No problem with glamour here. That, in fact, is his only hope. There is little in his record to inspire much confidence among voters. But his charisma is beginning to stir up excitement. A good horse, as the pols say, even if a dark one. He is every advance man's dream candidate-sensitive to the shifts in place and mood. He knows when to roll up his shirtsleeves and loosen his tie and when to button up again. Aside from Wallace, he is drawing the biggest crowds in Florida, but . whether they turn out to gawk...
...brightest of all the Olympic stars was a Dutchman: Speed Skater Ard Schenk. Like Jean-Claude Killy, the Gallic glamour boy of the 1968 games, the dashingly handsome Schenk won three gold medals and the unofficial beefcake award. Crowds of more than 40,000 packed the Mako-manai Speed-Skating Rink to see the big (6 ft. 3 in.. 200 Ibs.), blond and blue-eyed Schenk easily overpower his competition at 1.500 and 5,000 meters with his powerfully rhythmic strides. Then, while Dutch fans clopped their wooden shoes and shouted "Heya! Heya! Ard Schenk!" he covered...
Searching the Slopes. All four firms have learned to sell glamour as well as craftsmanship. Kneissl, for which Schranz has worked since he was a teenager, claims that its skis have helped capture 16 Olympic medals. It urges its salesmen to "mention our victories in your sales talks." Like its competitors, Kneissl regularly sends out talent scouts to search the mountainsides for promising 12-and 13-year-olds, whom it hires as apprentices, sends to secondary school and trains to be champion skiers...
Died. Jessie Royce Landis, 67, veteran actress who appeared in more than 50 plays, 20 films and a variety of television shows; of cancer; in Danbury, Conn. "Most actresses won't play mothers because they think they won't be offered any more glamour parts," she said after turning 50. "That leaves me a clear field." While many of her contemporaries disappeared from public view in middle age, Landis kept busy by mothering the likes of Grace Kelly, Susan Hayward, Montgomery Clift and Gary Grant...
Peanuts cocktail napkins lie forgotten in pantry drawers, and Beethoven's face glares up from abandoned Schroeder sweatshirts in musty Goodwill Stores. Charlie Brown calendars are replaced on bedroom walls by Sierra Club gloss, or Playboy Mag. glamour. "Snoopy and the Red Baron" is by now a tarnished golden oldie...