Word: modell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marvel is that this pride of cinema lions could be confined in one cage without roaring each other down. Director Mann has obviously cracked the whip, but some of the credit also belongs to Author Rattigan, whose script is the very model of a lion act-the exits and entrances precisely timed, the terrors tactfully spaced, the total effect not seriously disturbing but guaranteed to make the customers forget their troubles in the simple animal pleasure of watching someone else...
...Sharry Rubin was an up-and-coming TV actress (such shows as Playhouse go and Armstrong Circle Theater), and keeping her 5-ft.-5-in. frame down to a model-shapely 100 lbs. Daughter of a New York City leather-goods manufacturer, Sharry had emotional problems that sent her to a psychiatrist and may have helped her vivid portrayal of a disturbed teen-ager in The Case for Room 310. One morning last month, at her family's home in Hewlett Harbor, L.I., Sharry Rubin sought emotional satisfaction, probably for an unconscious need, by gorging herself. She put away...
...office at Convair in San Diego last week, Space Age Planner Krafft A. Ehricke inspected the first 20-in.-long model of Helios,* a chemical and nuclear spaceship he envisions for interplanetary travel. For two hours Ehricke mused over his Helios with three visitors, while he suggested minute changes in the model's engine, then gave his O.K. for its production. A full-size prototype of Ehricke's spaceship may be ten years and millions of dollars away. But next year plastic model kits of Helios, ready to assemble, will be in the hands of schoolboys around...
Helios is the latest model of Revell, Inc. of Venice, Calif., the world's largest maker of plastic model kits (nearly 30 million sold last year), whose retail sales have rocketed from $2,250,000 to $35 million in only ten years. Says Revell's 41-year-old President Lewis H. Glaser: "Assembling models is the nation's leading hobby. It even beats stamp collecting." This year total model kit sales will account for $75 million of the $1.5 billion spent on toys. Among Revell's new models for Christmas buying: a three-stage manned rocket...
...basic transportation" and a smaller, compact car. While other U.S. cars became costlier and heavier, Mason and his successor, Romney, introduced the first Rambler in 1950, drove it into the field, where the only competition was foreign. To cut costs, Romney consolidated field organization, factories and production, kept model changes at a minimum. He pushed Rambler's break-even point down to a low 120,000 cars a year. Now, he is doing the same thing with the Kelvinator appliance division, which is about to turn the corner. In a year he paid off bank debts...