Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems less concerned about the rumors, or less worried about where whim will carry fashion next. Says she: "I've always designed things I needed myself. It just turns out that other people need them, too." At 50, Designer McCardell is still her own best model. She is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, has a trim figure (130 lbs.), honey-blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes...
...another $45 job as a model and sketcher for Townley Frocks, Inc., then owned by Henry H. Geiss, a harassed veteran of Seventh Avenue's fashion campaigns. A tragedy provided a break. Less than a month before the spring showing in 1931, Townley's designer drowned while swimming; it was up to Claire to turn out a collection. Says she: "I did what everybody else did in those days-copied Paris. The collection wasn't great, but it sold." Flushed with confidence, Designer McCardell began to experiment. But often her designs were too advanced for the market...
...another worshipper who already owned one of the fifty million asked the way to the Oldsmobile exhibit, and a man who had driven to the show in an Olds spent his time in the Cadillac section of the hall. He couldn't take his eyes off the $15,000 model. One was crmine-lined; another had a television set, telephone, and tape recorder in the back seat. The man was so absorbed by the Cadillacs that he didn't see his wife disappear into the swirling mobs until he found her ten minutes later looking wistfully at the station wagons...
...Count of Paris"; Dona Lola-"She resembles a bullfighter's mother or a Roman empress"; their apartment-"Why, they live better than I do!"* "Good! Good!" Glancing at L'Oeil's pictures of his old works, Picasso searched in vain for the name of his Spanish model, explaining: "We called her 'La saucisse' [ the sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving, Le Repas Frugal, he said: "I didn't know they had this. It's worth a fortune." But what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood...
...steel, the bank noted that 26.9% of the industry's output is being taken by automakers, and cautioned: "Any setback in auto production will . . . cut considerably into steel output." It cannot go on without a letup, said the bank. "At some point . . . [either] labor troubles, inventory adjustments or model changes ... is likely to be a temporary source of weakness." The National Industrial Conference Board backed up this view: by midyear, "sales and production of 1955 models in the eight months since November 1954 will have come close to exhausting the 1955 model market." Furthermore, said N.I.C.B., it looks...