Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week when Jon entered the prestigious state championships at North Sydney, few noticed his leggy kid sister tagging along. Then Ilsa made a splash of her own. Swimming in the 440-yd. freestyle, she finished second by only .6 sec. to Australia's great Lorraine Crapp, holder of two Olympic Gold Medals, four world records. This was enough to make square-faced, broad-grinning Ilsa the darling of the galleries...
AUTOMOBILE TV for back-seat passengers is being readied by Oldsmobile, which hopes to offer it as optional equipment on 1959 models. Set has 9-in. screen, fits into holder behind front seat, but can be removed for viewing outside...
...wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum's purchase list across the Channel, embarked...
...Breast, and Beyond," Class and Caste in the Sales-room," "Selling Symbols to Upward Strivers," and "The Packaged Soul" indicate the nature of his subject matter. His description of the techniques used to sell Mrs. Middle Majority, "the darling of the advertiser," and those used to revive the cigarette holder, instant coffee, tea, margarine, and prune industries are intensely interesting...
...real nature of the Communist beast is obviously still news to ex-Party Member Fast. The rank and file, he continues to insist, were "the bravest and the best." The betrayers of the socialist dreams were the leaders, who rule by terror and, above all, by "magic." The onetime holder (1953) of the Stalin Peace Prize tries to explain and expose that evil Red magic; he sees Big Brother's ultimate depredations in the destruction of conscience ("The very nature of right and wrong has changed"). Considering Author Fast's onetime reputation, the book will take its minor...