Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high point in the evening was his presentation of three original songs he had rarely sung before. Of these the most impressive was the mournful, haunting maiden's lament, "Unused I am to Lovers." The melody was a beautiful but unlikely combination of classical Italian influence and backwoods "hollars." I found myself wishing someone like Joan Baez would sing it so its true beauty could emerge...
...without any seams at all. The secret is in a new drip-dry Chemstrand nylon fiber, which, once molded, holds its shape forever. To make the bra, the lace cloth is laid over a metal replica of a well-shaped bosom. Another form, hollowed out like an Iron Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material. There is not a seam to be seen, or to cut, bind or pucker. "The first...
...patrician wellbeing. Douglas Dillon is only two generations removed from the ghettos of Poland, where Samuel Lapowski. his paternal grandfather, was born. Migrating to Texas after the Civil War. Lapowski set up shop as a clothier, first in San Antonio and later in Abilene, took his mother's maiden name of Dillon, prospered enough to send his only son Clarence to Harvard. Shrewd, smart and blessed with a good poker player's sense of timing, Clarence ("Baron") Dillon was the only boy in his class ('05 ) to own a car-and the one who perhaps drove ahead...
...economy got its biggest lift in May from the auto industry, where production was up 9%. Not since 1929, the maiden year of the model A. had Ford sold so many Fords in May. Over at General Motors, Chevrolet enjoyed its best month this year and the second-best May in history. Sales rose...
...Startling the rest of his industry is" a favorite pastime with John P. Cunningham, 63, president of Manhattan's Cunningham & Walsh ad agency. Last week, true to form, Cunningham enlivened his maiden speech as new chairman of the Advertising Federation of America with a proposal that the word "capitalism" be abandoned. Said he: "It would be just as unfair to call today's business operation 'capitalism' as it would be to call squirrels capitalists because they hoard nuts for the winter . . . The word describes only a part of our industrial incentive system-a part that...