Word: models
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Billy always feels at home in the batter's box. He chokes up a bit on his 34-in., 34-oz. Ted Williams model bat, holds his elbows high, and figures confidently that he can hit all pitchers and all pitches equally well. Sometimes, he admits, "a baseball is hard to hit. There's a lot of luck in it." Luck or not, Ted Williams' substitute* seemed likely to be the 1950 batting champ of the American League...
...years later, Luther himself married Katherine von Bora, an ex-nun, who bore him six children. He became the model for future German papahood, according to Bainton: he appeared to love his children dearly, yet he was stonily unforgiving when disobeyed, and was known to cut up his son's pants to mend his own: he wrote the children gaggingly sentimental letters while he was away from them and sometimes called them "idiots" when he was home...
...attempt by Chicago's H. W. Gossard Co., one of the biggest U.S. foundation garment makers, to make men "girdle conscious." It hoped that its recumbent model-who, of course, was so well-formed that she had not the slightest need for a girdle-would make men take another look at their wives and hustle them around to the store for a tighter or, at least, better...
Gossard dubbed his model L'lrresistible, sold the first dozen fast in the U.S. for a whopping $50 apiece (v. the average price of $1.50 for American corsets), and soon was producing a simplified $5 version of his own. He standardized for the mass market by classifying the female body into nine "ideal figures"-which weren't so much ideal as they were all-inclusive. Samples: "The Ideal Curved-Back Figure," "The Ideal Large-Below-the-Waist Figure." He also shrewdly marked his corsets two inches smaller than they actually were so women wouldn't squeeze themselves...
...life Lana takes for her own begins in Kansas, soon moves to Manhattan where she becomes U.S. model No. 1. But there is a gap in her life, and Ray Milland, a married mining engineer, comes along to fill it. After they have lived for three months in sin (but with utter devotion, of course), Milland tells her that his wife is an invalid and is on her way to New York. Lana hits the bottle, can't sleep, demands a showdown with Milland's loving wife (Margaret Phillips) and finds she cannot go through with it. Bravely...