Word: modell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thereabouts, was a rising Hollywood star. She was tall, and had what Brooklyn-bred Hollywood folks call a good built. Her soft auburn hair and her cool, beautiful face decorated fashion magazine covers in the days when she was earning a reported $100,000 a year as a model. More than that. Suzy was a smart girl with a fondness for the kind of glib crack that sends fan magazine writers fluttering to their typewriters, and she even had a small flair for acting (Ten North Frederick-TIME...
...picture on this week's cover story is of Mrs. Douglas Thorn Jr., 23, a Manhattan model who symbolizes the American woman's search for beauty. Arkansas-born Jean Thom is the mother of a two-year-old boy, works about 25 hours a week at modeling for top cosmetic houses. She has a problem that most women who visit beauty salons would be delighted to share: she is petite (98 Ibs.). Says Jean Thorn: "I hate it. I take vitamin pills and everything to fatten up a bit." She spends about 20 minutes a day making...
GERMAN VOLKSWAGENS are in such demand (a six-month wait in some U.S. cities) that U.S. dealers have started to buy used cars in West Germany for premium prices, ship them to U.S., sell them for new-model price (about...
Even Joseph Sewall, model student that he was, managed to slip home for a few days each month, giving the universal excuse of a wedding or funeral in the family, or having a "Tooth pull...
Jungle Waif. The central Beat character that unintentionally emerges is a model psychopath. The hipster has a horror of family life and sustained relationships. In a brilliant, poignant story, Sunday Dinner In Brooklyn, Anatole Broyard recounts the ordeal of a highbrow Greenwich Village bohemian returning for an hour or two of strained parental nuzzling. Says the hero plaintively: "I realized that I loved them very much. But what was I going to do with them?" The hipster is also estranged from nature. In George Mandel's The Beckoning Sea, the suicide-bent hero runs screaming along a beach...