Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ramblers have been more reliable than a model T, and I've never had to back up a hill, either...
...felt a twinge of concern at the thought that Mr. Romney's company might try to combat Big Three competition by following along with the planned-obsolescence idea. Since the compact-car buyer is a discerning soul, he is not happy with yearly model changes. What he desires is gradual improvement where improvements count: in engine efficiency, better braking, lighter weight, lowered drag, better suspensions, readability...
Dempsey & Duchin. By 1933, Har-onicist Adler had begun to catch on, and next year he went to England. Despite a mixed reception from the critics, he was a box-office smash. He married Eileen Walser, a London model, and began to tour the world. He was away so long that when he decided to come home in 1939, no one remembered him. "I was offered a job," he recalls ruefully, "in Jack Dempsey's bar." Then an appearance with Eddy Duchin got him started again. When World War II started, he traveled the world once more, entertaining troops...
...commercial stage, he nominated Brecht first of all, added Ibsen, Pirandello and Wedekind, and commented that "Giraudoux has been not neglected, but so often misinterpreted that it's worse than neglect." Jean Genet to Tynan is "a natural, who shouldn't be imitated... He's a bad model but an interesting artist"; Eugene Ionesco is "bright as a button, but he's not a messiah of the drama...
Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete tangles with a pretty model while puzzling over the usual corpse...