Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Ottawa society-the society, basically, of a small town (despite its 154,951 population) that depends less on money than on knowing people and being of respectable family. The Scotts had little money, but they gave their daughter everything they could afford. She went to the Ottawa Normal Model School, got plenty of dolls, and a pair of ice skates when she was six. Until Barbara Ann was ten, her mother made all her clothes. She was the kind of little girl who was nev.er mussed or wrinkled. She kept dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and white mice, and played...
...mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding to the mosque by muleback, made the trip more comfortably in a blue seven-passenger Buick, 1941 model...
...hideous Flemish masterpiece, newly acquired by London's National Gallery, looked strangely familiar. Probably, said the National Gallery experts last week, Illustrator John Tenniel had used it as the model for the Duchess in Alice. Flemish Master Quentin Matsys (1466-1530), who had painted the original, had intended it as a caricature of Margaret (nicknamed "Pocket-mouth"), Countess of Tyrol. About the only change Tenniel made, agreed the London News Chronicle, was to add "ermine to the headdress and sausage curls to the forehead." Otherwise little was otherwise...
Married. David Niven, 37, sparrowy, Scottish-born cinemactor (Raffles, The Bishop's Wife), and Hjördis Demberg Tersmeden, 27, red-haired Swedish ex-model; each for the second time (his first wife died in 1946 from an accidental fall); in London...
...welding knowledge to work on his first steel model, playfully called it "Electrolysis." But he did not start mass production until 194,5. Last year, his assembly-line yard at West Haven, Conn, turned out one steel cruiser every 90 minutes, and he grossed $4,250,000. (When Steelcraft's 1,000th boat came off the line, Churchward had it lifted 106 feet by a crane, then dropped to demonstrate its indestructibility.) So far, he has turned out 1,860 cruisers. This year he is stepping up production one-third, and hopes to turn out more small cruisers than...