Word: leavering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...model young woman is modest Henrietta Leaver of McKeesport, Pa. who until three months ago worked in a 5? & 10? store. One to whom Miss Leaver was not entirely unknown was Manager George Tyson of Pittsburgh's Alvin Theatre who recalled that two years ago she was runner-up for the title of "Miss McKeesport," that she tried again this year and won the title of "Miss Pittsburgh" in a beauty contest of his organizing. Two months ago when "Miss Pittsburgh" was glorified at Atlantic City as "Miss America of 1935," he became her manager. And last week "Miss...
...able Pittsburgh sculptor named Frank Vittor lately asked Manager Tyson's permission to do a statue of "Miss America." Chaperoned by her grandmother, Mrs. Hettie Ebert, modest Miss Leaver went to Sculptor Vittor's studio, was photographed, posed twice in a bathing suit. During her last visit she was horrified to notice that there was no bathing suit on Sculptor Vittor's statue. Outraged, she stormed, threatened suit...
Said Miss Leaver: "I'm a bit modest. Even if I did pose in a bathing suit, you know how people will talk. ... I don't think a little drapery will hurt...
Said bewildered Sculptor Vittor: "Napoleon's Josephine posed for Canova without a bathing suit. After all Miss Leaver didn't pose in the nude and there's nothing to offend her. . . . My brother Anthony and I had every measurement. We had photographs of her. We had a chart...