Word: troy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are looking for "the absolute of sex in feminine flesh." Or more exactly, they are searching for the properly lascivious features that are required of Helen of Troy as the Bard envisioned...
Neither, however, can be compared to Helen of Troy, about whom historians differ. Whether her face launched or on the contrary sank a thousand of Agamemnon's ships is still a meet point...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy...
...maker of brand-name shirts (Arrow), but its largest single source of profit is not from shirts at all. It is from "Sanforizing," a process for pre-shrinking fabrics now used for almost all U.S. cotton clothing. Last week, Cluett, Peabody invited a group of bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead...
...official are at present searching for a "classic beauty" to portray Helen of Troy. Some thirty other speaking roles will be doled out at the casting sessions next Wednesday and Thursday. Rehearsal will begin a week from Monday...