Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lisa Fonssagrives, America's top fashion model, is the 110th woman to appear on TIME'S cover (TIME, Sept. 19). In a manner of speaking, she represented all of them. As the cover story pointed out, a model is the advertising professions' Everywoman...
...first thought that the dogmatic, belligerent method of teaching, this doctrine would not work on Americans," the Father said. "I thought I had to sugarcoat my message in the fashion of 'Going My Way.'" During the course of his talk he read three of his poems showing the increasing amount of bitterness used to put his message across. The last of his poems that he read was the last one he wrote before turning to lectures...
...bottle of champagne from Stork Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley, whom she has never met. She recalls, "I thought: what a strange country this is. Maybe I'd better go home now." Today, Lisa works an average of 20 hours a week, half on advertising and half on magazine fashion illustrations, which pay less than advertising pictures ($12.50-$15) but carry prestige. Lisa averages about $500 a week, could easily make more if she worked a 40-hour week. Once, working hard, she made $1,800 in one week...
Lisa is an expert with a camera, is thinking of combining modeling with a part-time job as a fashion photographer. She has been a top model for 14 years while younger and prettier ones have come & gone, but no one was yet ready to name her successor when and if she stops modeling...
...deep-chested, dim-witted fashion, Mature loves his wife. But Lizabeth loves nothing but penthouses, stylish parties and Wall Street wolves who, for a consideration, can boost her to success as an interior decorator. Her pushing ways cost Mature a chance for a secure job as football coach at the state college. The job goes instead to his buddy and teammate, Sonny Tufts...