Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time off for a quick trip through the Museum of Modern Art, where he was allowed two extraordinary privileges: 1) he was permitted to keep his glowing cigar as he whisked through the galleries, and 2) he didn't have to remove his shoes when he inspected the model Japanese home in the museum's garden...
...products coming off the assembly lines. Last week Chrysler Corp. brought out its new Plymouths and Dodges, all lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king-sized horizontal grilles and twin exhaust vents in the rear bumpers. Throughout the industry, sales were so brisk that some dealers have taken more orders for new cars in the past month than they had sold in the preceding twelve months...
...almost everything else in the great do-it-yourself boom (TIME, Aug. 2), are getting a chance to join in the fun. Do-ityourself is the big trend in Christmas toys this year, and children will be able to turn out everything from clocks and racing cars to model battleships. Toymakers are so sure do-it-yourself will be a yuletide hit, that they hope for sales of $1 billion in 1954 for the first time in history...
There are hundreds of new hobby and model kits. Strombecker has knock-down dollhouse furniture (7-and 8-piece sets for $2.50) to give aspiring Chippendales a chance to prove their talents; when they have finished making their own furniture, they can assemble a prefab, 6-room dollhouse from a Keystone Wood Toys kit ($14.95). Renwal Manufacturing Co. has a Be a Designer set ($4.98) with 29 pieces of miniature furniture, paints and traceable designs to make the plastic pieces look different. For more advanced work, Walter L. Herne Co. has a three-sided furnished room ($5) with different wallpapers...
...year the G.O.P.'s Bruce Alger refused to be ignored. He campaigned so busily that he even wandered into his opponent's own office in search of votes. Alger, 36, is a former Princeton footballer and World War II bomber pilot. His wife was a Nieman-Marcus model. Even when his lead was safe, Alger could not forget that he was a Republican running in Texas. Said he: "Don't count me in yet-I don't want to be presumptuous...