Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center in Farmer Carl Daymen Snider's cornfield, well-wishers came from all directions. Snider, a lean, tanned 33-year-old son of the soil, took it calmly: "I ain't overly worked up about it." said he. When he was asked if his family would pose before a camera, he said: "The woman may take the shotgun...
...Brought to Manhattan by the Museum of Natural History to pose for its diorama of a Southern pine forest, Willie Williams, 63-year-old scout and gamekeeper on South Carolina's Possum Corner Plantation, stuck it out for two days and then declared he had to get back to his game preserve. "Chewing tobacco is my main satisfaction," he explained, "and that's why I have to get out of New York City. No place to spit." ¶ After serving nine months as district director of the Office of Price Stabilization in Baltimore, Hugo R. Hoffman...
...Atlanta, oldtime Cinemactor Francis X. Bushman asked to be driven to the capitol grounds for a look at the statue of Confederate General John B. Gordon. Explained Bushman, recalling his days as an artist's model at $10 a pose, "I've always wanted to see him. I posed for his body but they added General Gordon's head...
Former Screen Moppet Margaret O'Brien, her familiar pigtails fluffed out in a new coiffure and looking quite grownup for 14, stopped in Manhattan enroute to Britain long enough to give photographers a teen-age pose. She plans to return in October for a four-month tour (at $3,500 a week) doing scenes from Shakespeare, Cinderella and Alice...
Love Comes to Andy Hardy. Starlets are among the lowest-if among the most attractive-forms of Hollywood life. They are the dress extras of paradise. Their main job is to pose for cheesecake pictures and to be ever ready to be named by the United Elevator Operators of America as the Girl They Would Most Like to Be Stuck With at the Top of the Empire State Building. That was Ava's life in Hollywood until one fateful day when someone on the M-G-M lot suggested that she might like to meet Mickey Rooney...