Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's a picture of Roger," Mrs. Horan said, warmly. "He's only 27. He used to be an accountant, and he was a photographer's model when he was 14. I don't know why he wanted to join the police force," she added. "But then he always hated that inside work, and he loves to listen to detective and quiz programs. We bet on them. He owes me a black slip with lace." Mrs. Horan flushed...
...Boops, No Baby Talk. Jo Stafford's style is also typical of popular singing, 1946 model. The days of Helen Kane's boop-boop-a-doop, Helen Morgan's teary-voiced moaning or Bonnie Baker's baby talk are past. The style,now-practiced also by Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee -is to sing straight, and let the band do the fancy work. Her detractors say Jo Stafford sings like a pitch pipe...
Wright's latest, a country house for wealthy stockbroker Gerald Loeb, has yet to be built, but a 6 ft. by 12 ft. model went on view last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Designed for a barren hilltop, the Loeb house was to be as low, flat and full of wrinkles as an unmade Japanese...
Convair has also started to build a military transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen. On the drawing boards is an even larger commercial version which is expected to haul up to 275 passengers. But Convair has no orders for the commercial transport (Model 37) as yet. Pan American Airways has plugged Convair's Model 37 in ads for more than two years. But even Pan Am has placed no solid order...
...little trouble with building unions about getting its houses put up, although some cities (Paterson, N.J. and Jackson, Mich.) have barred it because of zoning restrictions. The house can be erected in three days by three or four nonprofessionals. Jacques's daughter Jacqueline put up the first trial model in a week with the help of three women. Then she wrote the instruction book. Said Willis: "Anyone who can change a tire can assemble a Home...