Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of such reassuring facts, some businessmen had been hard hit. U.S. retailers reported that their sales were still below the 1948 level, and for 172 department stores, net profits for 1949's first half were 58% below the 1948 period. Some merchants thought that further price cuts were in order. Last week, five men's clothing chains trimmed suit prices from $3 to $10. One of the ten biggest U.S. distillers, Glenmore, announced the first major postwar price slash in bottled-in-bond bourbon whisky (a cut of $1 a bottle on Kentucky Tavern, retailing in Manhattan...
...Birth of the Model. In the past century, America underwent a great economic revolution. Americans made more things, and created more power to create still more things, than all past ages put together. The force chiefly charged with selling this breathless, and sometimes choking, proliferation of wealth is advertising...
Even if a girl is accepted by one of New York's 23 agencies (the best known: Powers, Conover, Thornton, Hartford, Ford), it is still a long road to a magazine cover or a four-color ad. Most agencies register far more models than they can possibly place, are little more than clearinghouses which keep the models' bookings, relay telephone messages, give them a place to sit around and wait between jobs, and collect 10% of their fees. It is usually the model who has to sell herself, tramping in & out of photographers' studios, showing her scrapbook...
...stone, a dentist. Lisa's father had changed his name from Anderson, which he considered too commonplace: there are 48 pages of Andersons in the Stockholm telephone directory. The Bernstones were always considered a little daring by the town: they liked to go swimming in the nude. Lisa still likes to when she swims at a deserted Long Island beach...
Although her parents sent her to cooking school ("with the idea that I should be a good housewife"), Lisa had her heart and her nimble feet set on dancing. The town still remembers how, in a school play, she stole the show dancing the role of an Oriental slave...