Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zaim's model seems to be neither Mussolini nor Franco, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the maker of modern Turkey. Damascus, until recently one of the most orthodox Moslem capitals in the Middle East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...
...model for his CBS staff, Meighan cites Arthur Godfrey as typifying "the magic approach that has the brightness that comes with freshness and sincerity. People trust him, know he wouldn't pull anything on them." It is inaccurate to accuse Godfrey of kidding his sponsors: "He is, in fact, enthusiastic about them...
...short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major-General...
...runway at Ohio's Akron-Canton airport one day this week stood a bright yellow, converted C87 that was once used by General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U.S. Marines. Waiting for the take-off was a tall, sad-eyed man who was indeed the very model of a modern full-blown general, or admiral-or at least something mineral. His milky-blue uniform with brass buttons and bright gold stars & bars suggested considerable rank, if an indeterminate branch of service. But there was nothing indeterminate about the man inside the uniform. He was Samuel Floyd Keener...
...Girl from Jones Beach (Warner) turns out to be blonde Virginia Mayo, a high-minded schoolteacher with a photogenic figure and a low I.Q. in matters of romance. To Ronald Reagan, a New York commercial artist, she looks like the perfect model for the perfect cover girl. To Eddie Bracken, a down-at-heels promoter, she looks like the promise of a fat commission if she can be teamed with Reagan in a television act. The problem: to persuade highbrow Miss Mayo to lend herself to such a lowbrow enterprise...