Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1947, Norma Jeane was the busiest model in Hollywood. In one month she adorned the covers of five magazines. The film studios cocked an eye. One day Norma Jeane got a call from two of them: Starmaker Howard Hughes and 2Oth Century-Fox. She went to Fox first. Cried Casting Director Ben Lyon: "It's Jean Harlow all over again!" He signed her for $125 a week. He slapped a new label on her (Monroe was the maiden name of Norma Jeane's mother, and Marilyn began with an M too), and put her to work...
...emissary for a Japanese warlord. Once there, he studied in Zen Buddhist monasteries, turned out landscape drawings of the four seasons that amazed even the traditional classic practitioners. At Peking, he left behind one of his paintings, which for years was held up to young Chinese painters as a model of excellence. But Sesshu returned to Japan a disappointed man, noting that he had sought in vain through 400 provinces for a master, and concluded: "My only teachers of painting are the celebrated places of Ming-the mountains, rivers, grasses and trees . . . The teacher is in myself...
...builders, the early postwar days when any old design would sell are fast dying. To keep on building some 1,200,000 new houses annually, they must meet changing consumer needs and desires much in the same way Detroit's automakers turn out an annual model change. And like the automen, who quickly caught on to postwar yearnings for longer, lower, higher-horsepowered cars, so U.S. homebuilders must ask the man who owns one, and listen to his ideas...
Married. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, 53, president-publisher of Look Magazine and the Des "Monies Register & Tribune Co.; and Mrs. Jan Hochstraser Cox, 36, onetime model, erstwhile feature writer for the Miami Daily News; both for the fourth time, seven days after her divorce from James Cox Jr., Miami Daily News publisher; in Manhattan...
...Anderson, a stolid, philosophical farmer, came out of his troubles by tightening his belt. Last February, when he was due to make a big payment on his $1,200 International Harvester tractor, he sold it and bought a $600 John Deere model, with about the same power but fewer gadgets. ("I do the same work at half the price," he explains.) Last month when a payment came due on his 1952 car, he sold it and bought a 1950 model. With the difference, he had $275 left over to apply on other bills. He wanted a new harrow...