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...with an unerring eye, because his discovery was to become Marilyn Monroe. In June 1945, Conover, then an Army photographer stationed at the Hal Roach Studio in California, was sent by his commanding officer, Captain Ronald Reagan, to take promotional shots of women doing war work. The allure of Norma Jean Dougherty, 19, attaching propellers to model aircraft at the Radioplane Corp., prompted Conover to request a two-week leave, which he spent touring the Mojave Desert with the young beauty and teaching her some modeling techniques. Conover returned late from his leave and was shipped out to the Philippines...
Body Glove Swimwear, Piccone's company, has sold more than 33,000 one- and two-piece suits (priced from $40 to $130) in hot pink, fluorescent green and & other vibrant colors. Top designers like Norma Kamali and Gianfranco Ferre are turning out similar fashions. Coming soon from Body Glove: a line of neoprene car coats and miniskirts...
EXPECTING. Sally Field, 40, pert television actress (Gidget, The Flying Nun) and two-time Oscar-winning movie star (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart), and her husband Movie Producer Alan Greisman, 39: their first child; in December. Field has two children from a previous marriage...
...computers and typewriters and fanned across the bank's five floors, counting cash in the vault, poring over spread sheets and answering the ringing phones with "FDIC." In the executive suite, Secretary Debbie Bratton watched in disbelief as strangers carted off the Texas banking charter. Fretted New Accounts Representative Norma Villaloboz: "Everyone's in shock. Hopefully, somebody will...
...sportswear is renowned for its sexy variations on the sweatshirt, but lately Designer Norma Kamali has been perspiring about her unwanted association with a different fashion tradition: the sweatshop. Last week the New York State department of labor said it had slapped Kamali with a record $10,000 fine for illegally employing workers to cut and sew garments for her at home. It was the first time a big-name designer had been singled out for breaking the state's 1935 sweatshop law. Kamali stopped using the homeworkers, mostly Hispanic and Asian, when state labor officials began in December...