Word: model
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Installment Plan. In Detroit, thieves stole the furnishings from a model home, next night returned and stole the carpeting from the house next door...
...story is about a middle-aged wolf, a New York garment manufacturer, who lusts after his newest model, a young divorcee fresh from East Oshkosh. The Stanley Woolf Players production was sloppy, and seemed inadequately rehearsed...
...bedroom apartment, the paint easily rubs off the prefabricated walls. The furniture is frail and imitative. The kitchen contains a small, 1,300-ruble ($130) refrigerator that stands 3 ft. 9 in. high, is more like a 1939 than a 1959 U.S. model: the stove ($60) is so small that the oven would cramp a large chicken...
Died. Patricia Stevens Muntz, 45, owner of Patricia Stevens, Inc., largest combination modeling-agency-charm school in the U.S.; of heart failure (she left two farewell notes and an empty bottle of barbiturates under her deathbed); in Chicago. A onetime Powers model, Pat opened a small agency of her own in Chicago in 1942, over the years added ingenious beauty lures for plain girls, upped enrollment to 2,000, grossed over $1,000,000 a year, had 41 agencies in other cities. In her last days she quarreled bitterly over control of her business with second husband Earl ("Madman") Muntz...
...Harold Loeb. There were some real people behind most of the characters in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises-Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, his older mistress, etc. In a fascinating backward look, the author (who served as Cohn's model) tells who was really who and how they lived, talked and drank in those nights before the sun rose...