Word: tressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Veronica Lake (real name: Constance Keane de Toth), 25, cinemac tress who popularized the sheep-dog hairdo, and Andre de Toth, 32, Hungarian-born cinema director: their first child, a son (she has a daughter by a previous marriage) ; in Hollywood. Name Andre Michael de Toth II. Weight...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
Shrubbery and tress have been imitated by dyed sheep's wool. The roads have been traced by cloth strapping and houses, placed exactly where ones now stand, have been built of wood and painted. Metal strips have been mailed down to resemble railroad tracks and strips of dark cloth represent the brooks and streams...