Word: stringbean
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While the Radcliffe girl in signalling thumbs down on the new look, the Harvard man is picking it up with enthusiasm. The well-dressed man is becoming narrower and narrower--the stringbean look now dominates proper male fashions...
Word has it that the stringbean silhouette is the thing this Spring. But Radcliffe refuses to go along with the lines dictated by the experts. As far as the 'Cliffe is concerned, the stringbean silhouette falls flat...
Immediately after the war, the hour-glass outline was in vogue: accentuated, and inflated, the female figure took on a "New Look." But in the last few years, with box jackets, stringbean silhouettes, and lower waists, the curve has straightened...
Baugh let his passing arm do the talking for him. Year after year his slingshot passes-bullet "buttonhooks" or pinpointed "floaters"-found their mark on the field and in the National Football League record books. He picked up such nicknames as the "Redskin Rifle," the "Sweetwater Stringbean," and, naturally, "Slingin' Sam." And in the rough & tumble N.F.L., sinewy Sam Baugh, the kid who was once considered too fragile for college football, never once had a serious injury, never broke a bone...
...year-old U.P. Vice President Virgil Pinkley, a Southern Californian with both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley in London and North Africa, had started pounding a Times police beat-traditional prep school for prospective city editors in a strange town...