Word: modeling
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...Graceful living" along with "Natural Femininity" are the two criteria by which "Natural Femininity" are the two criteria by which Mrs. Albert directs her school. Her knowledge of both these traits is little short of extensive, for in her spare time she is co-director of Promotions, Inc., a model agency featuring the "Hart Girls," several of which have graduated from the Academic Moderne...
...Model United Nations Assembly, sponsored by the UN Council, will inaugurate a drive to interest the University's 800 foreign students in extracurricular activities, tonight at 7 p.m. in the Geographical Lecture Room...
Only the first in a series of meetings, "the model assembly is an appeal for foreign students to participate in University organizations," Leonard S. Levine '56, Vice-President of the United Nations Council, said yesterday...
...M.P.H. Most of the credit for this unparalleled record goes to the late Ferdinand Porsche, who designed his first car, a battery-driven model that made 20 m.p.h., in 1899. Porsche built one of the world's first streamlined racers in 1910, designed a revolutionary engine for a 26-ton, self-propelled gun in World War I. During the '20s and '30s, his extravagant methods of car-building and his liking for experiments nearly broke a series of employers, but his cars dominated European racing...
Mechanics Mark. Porsche and his son Ferdinand Jr. launched their sports-car factory at Gmünd, Austria in 1949, with $50,000 in capital and a first model featuring a souped-up Volkswagen engine, produced only 50 cars in their first year. In 1950 they moved into a former barracks at Stuttgart, developed a series of hand-tooled, air-cooled engines that range today from 44 to 115 h.p., and expanded to the present line of 16 models. The elder Porsche died in 1951, but sales continued to climb under the direction of son Ferry, a square-faced...