Word: slimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specifically for weight reduction, the two things usually go together, as in the case of one of 5BX's biggest boosters-Movie Actor Red Skelton. "He began the exercises-plus a bit of dieting-six months ago," said a friend last week, "and today he's lighter, slimmer and more ept than ever...
...England prep school from another is "sometimes terribly difficult," says Taft's Headmaster Paul F. Cruikshank. But the name of his small (360 boys) school-an ivied Gothic campus in Watertown, Conn.-is hardly forgettable. It evokes the massive figure of President William Howard Taft, whose slimmer brother, Horace Button Taft, founded the school in 1890. A score of other Tafts* have since passed through; but these days another name makes Taft just as memorable-Cruikshank...
...years, during which weak consumer demand and Government policy have kept retail prices relatively stable, thus halting the price inflation. But cost inflation, which hits industry through rising labor and overhead costs, has not been stopped. If industry cannot offset higher costs with higher prices. Wall Street sees even slimmer profit margins in the long run. And since stock prices in the end reflect the profit potential of industry, some analysts argue that the market will inevitably have to go down if profit margins continue to narrow...
Line Spies. Cardin shortens his suit jackets and flares his skirts, even forsakes his trademark swing coats for a slimmer, fitted model. Grės, who has done more through the years for draped gowns than anyone since Phidias, keeps the soft shoulder line and low-set sleeve but lets the waistline wander obliquely from a high empire front to a low back, includes six "intimacy dresses" (lounging costumes with harem pants). Jean Patou puts skirt upon skirt, gathers them all together at what is decidedly a natural waistline...
...thinking of giving it to a deserving friend. Still, if she is ever dissatisfied with her own image, she can look at the Broadway play, Critic's Choice, which is frankly, if superficially, based on Mr. and Mrs. Kerr; there she is portrayed by Georgann Johnson, who is much slimmer than she (though Jean is easily the better actress). and her husband is impersonated by Henry Fonda, who is slightly more handsome than Walter Kerr (though Walter is easily the better critic). In the movie version of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, of course, the Kerrs were played...