Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome Bentley Patches six years ago. The wedding has turned out to be a great mistake, at least to Comic Stripper Plumb and his scriptwriter, Fred Fox. They wanted to get Ella back on the Cinderella beam and there was no place for a husband in that kind of strip...
Making its debut at the show was the 1950 Cadillac. It had a new body 4 inches lower than last year's model, the same high-tailed rear fenders, and a new point for argument by amateur designers: a vertical chrome strip that broke the flowing lines of the body just ahead of the rear fenders. As an added eye-catcher, Cadillac was showing a $32,000 yellow convertible with upholstery of leopard skin and grey nylon satin and leopard skin floor rugs. Oldsmobile had a hard-top convertible with seats trimmed in green alligator hide, while Buick displayed...
...result was a squat, dumpy ziggurat tapering toward the top and crowned with a concrete blockhouse containing elevator and air-conditioning equipment. High-minded architects referred to them scornfully as "wedding-cake modern." They were white and unadorned, faceless warrens comprised of layer upon layer of strip windows alternating with concrete, like stacked sandwiches. They looked appallingly alike...
California rain slanted down on Santa Anita's water-logged racing strip; a light earthquake shook the track between the second and third races. It hardly seemed an ideal day for a comeback. Nonetheless, Calumet Farm sent Citation, the wonder horse, wading to the post for his first race in 13 months. Lest anybody accuse him of taking unnecessary risks with the great horse, Trainer Horace A. ("Jimmy") Jones explained that his decision had been based on careful calculations. Said Jimmy: "I decided the horse was mentally ready as well as physically. When a horse is ready, he should...
...interviews at the rate of three a day. Anita Loos was planning a new show for her, and so was Joshua Logan. There were plans afoot to star her in a radio program and a television show. There were offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei doll modeled on Carol's lines. Even the glacial captains of café society's most chichi saloons, "21" and the Stork, went out of their way to bow effusively and greet her by name. "Everything," said Carol in her own peculiar idiom, "has leveled...