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...proprietary interest in Dawn and Lainy, this once the A.S.U. refuses to dip into its treasury to help them tram. This trip, the A.S.U. argues is private, and on the girls. Wistfully adding up her small salary as a department-store salesgirl, Dawn Fraser wondered this week how she would ever pay for a period of necessary workouts in tropical Townsville. "Just a little of that ?50,000 the A.S.U. has earmarked for training would be a big help," she admitted. But like the dedicated Aussie swimmer she is she added: "I will arrive in Hawaii fit, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Workers & Water Babies | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...anonymous Coop salesgirl says that last Christmas' most popular gift, cocktail sets, are being outsold by smoked glassware and electric frypans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merchants Attribute 'High Sales' To Wide Choice of Xmas Goods | 12/18/1956 | See Source »

After graduating from Kansas City's Westport High School in 1932, the girl clerked in the Kansas City Junior League Thrift Shop, later worked as a salesgirl and a model in Harzfeld's specialty shop. In 1938 she changed her name to Ann Eden and went to New York in search of fame. She was a Powers model. ("An all-round, wholesome-looking girl," recalls John Robert Powers. "We don't get calls for them like that any more. Nowadays they want a cadaverous look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Girl from Kansas | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Pleasure Principle. In Manhattan, Alexander Johnson, 39, carrying a bag of duck eggs home on the subway as a treat for his wife, spied Salesgirl Adrienne Ardizone, 20, sitting opposite in a freshly starched dress, calmly pelted her with raw eggs, said later that he just couldn't explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...assignment. He is seldom called on to do more than say a few lines or leer a bit at his young escort. He does the latter admirably, but without suggesting the talents as a comedian which he has shown in most of his earlier pictures. However, Odile Versois, the salesgirl, is an engaging contrast to Guinness' somber tweeds. As a sort of personification of the infinite possibilities offered by Paris in April, she burbles and bubbles over with joie de vivre. Next to her, even the sleek and well-tailored older woman of Elina Labourdette seems a bit lifeless, while...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: To Paris, With Love | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

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