Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Model for Laggards. In some cases great improvement has resulted from a change of methods, without any new machines. A textile mill in Bolton rearranged the machines in its cardroom, set workers to acquiring high skill at one job instead of puttering at several. Production per man-hour went up 39%, cost went down 10% a pound, and workers had more free time (for tea, etc.) on the job. Yet in the textile industry as a whole the man-hour output remains abysmally...
Tall, strikingly handsome and always immaculately dressed, Professor Tiselius speaks 'English with about the same accent as a Minnesota Swede. Students at Uppsala affectionately call him "the film star professor." His official hobbies are sailing, modern art, music, literature. His unofficial hobby: making model aircraft with Per, his 14-year...
...hair, he lets them look on while he carves, knocks off now & then to serve tea. "When I get bored with myself I go and see what the students are up to. I don't dictate, and I don't make them work too much from the model. The important thing is memory; I harp on that. For instance, coming across the campus this afternoon I saw a girl with her skirt blown back against her thighs. Now you can be inspired by a lovely glimpse like that, but never by copying. Right...
Lacking Maldarelli's subtlety in sculpture, Mitzi makes up for it in wit, a wealth of ideas, and a willingness to be laughed at even when she is dead-earnest. The hit of her show was a model for a 114-ft. Family of Man Totem that she thought would look well in front of the U.N. building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird...
Signature's all-male fashion board demonstrate their recently acquired "fashion outlook." Joanne Irving '52 serves as model for the group, which is getting in practice for today's fashion show at Rindge Tech Auditorium...