Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glamor, acting ability and a pair of lyric legs. But her outstanding quality as a movie star is a frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works out the routines for most...
...folk heroes as Zapata and Pancho Villa swept the land with fantasy. The wave receded; Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...
This week Mr. Cowan moved to a more congenial pulpit. He had accepted a call to the Community Church of TVA's model town of Norris, Tenn. In this nondenominational, New Dealish church he could continue the activities which have made his Fellowship an example, mostly horrible, to Southern churchgoers...
...Twelve years ago when the Manvilles sold control to J. P. Morgan, J-M's employes felt they had been sold down the river. Today, not only have the 10,000 workers forgotten this grievance but their company has acquired a position in the public eye as a model Big Business. Despite antitrust, anti-bigness, anti-Morgan sentiment, it alone of Big Business was held up by Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney of the Monopoly Committee as an example of enlightened management...
These and other innovations to win friends and influence people are the work of John Marvin Yost, a local boy who went into the bank 21 years ago and married a distant relative of its founder, Hotelman James Hatcher. Banker Yost, whose extracurricular activities include a model "Chick Manor" complete with running water and radio, launched his stunts one by one on First National's conservative directors. He says they "have tolerated, me because they . . . know I am honest, with one thing in mind: to run a good bank and make money." Last week Banker Yost rejoiced that deposits...