Word: corset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the Forever, and Forever and Forever Without End, on which he has worked for 21 years, he selected each brick from a yard in Aurora, added a baby shoe lovingly plucked from an ash heap in Warrenville, and topped it off with a corset that belonged to his mother. One still life required him to keep fish in the freezer for three months, taking them out for three hours a day. "As soon as they began to thaw, I would stick them back in the freezer," he explains. Title of this work? Ah God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering...
...their own localities. Competitors say that Straus has developed some of the best executives in retailing through Macy's training program and its habit of promoting from within. The great-grandson of one of Macy's pioneers, Straus began as a floorwalker in the women's corset department after leaving Harvard ('21). His son is now a Macy's vice president...
...Corsets & Asparagus. He had his closest call late in 1957. Thundering along the Ohio River at 175 m.p.h. during the Indiana Governor's Cup race, Miss Thriftway blew up spectacularly, hurling Muncey into the water. Luckily, he broke no bones; but he spent weeks in the hospital recovering from internal injuries, now wears a steel corset in every race. He sank the second Miss Thriftway in 1958, when he lost a rudder and rammed a 40-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. He placed a close second in the 1959 Gold Cup competition, won it for the third time...
...Corsets & Buggy Whips. Since his youth in Three Oaks, Mich. (pop. in 1900: 990), Donner has always seemed to have an uncommonly sure sense of where he was going. The only child of an accountant for the Warren Featherbone Co. (corset stays and buggy whips), young Fred, neighbors recall, "didn't care much for athletics; he read at least two hours a day. And even as a boy he had a routine-so much time for work, so much time for play, so much time for study...
...Joan Sutherland, 35, announced that she would have to suspend her operatic career for up to six months because of a two-year-old spinal disk ailment. Though she stoically plans to complete her current Covent Garden contract and the spring season at La Scala in a steel-ribbed corset, the strapping, handsome Australian will have to abandon a scheduled summer tour of her native land to undergo medical treatment in her Swiss villa. "Only when that is finished," said she, "can I make any decision about my future engagements. But I certainly have no intention of announcing my retirement...