Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mercedes (Germany): the oldest car in the show. Drexler called it "an amusingly solemn piece of stagecraft" with "a necklace of lights, bumpers, straps, horns-and handles, undecorated but nevertheless expressively decorative, as were the caps and goggles which used to ornament the serious motorist...
...notably MGM's Dore Schary, welcome the glamor recession: they feel that the public has matured intellectually as well as morally, that today not the star but the screenplay's the thing. But the majority of producers insist that what Hollywood needs is a return to the oldest lure of all. They are taking hasty steps to reglamorize their "properties." Typical recent case: Darryl F. Zanuck ordered Jeanne Grain out of her demure aprons and put her into bathing suits, which she fills more than adequately. And they are searching feverishly for the girl who can put glamor...
...Face in the Window. Her oldest sister, Beatrice, was married to a New York photographer named Larry Tarr, and when17-year-old Ava came visiting in 1940, he was fascinated by his sister-in-law, shot dozens of pictures of her. Enter the agent of fate, one Barney Duhan, then a clerk in Loew's New York legal department. One day Duhan's eyes were arrested by the picture of a girl in Photographer Tarr's show window. "It was the face of the kind of girl you want to marry," recalls Duhan. "It was vibrant...
...institution, the Parnassus Bank, was the oldest in town (pop. 25,226), and Schlekat was so quiet, so respectable, so trusted by the public that any experienced bank examiner would have found both the crime and the criminal familiar to the point of triteness. Grey-haired, spectacled "Luddy" Schlekat, a local boy of good upbringing, started at the bank soon after he got out of high school. He worked hard, married a nice girl, sired two nice children, bought a nice house, went to the First Evangelical Lutheran Church regularly, joined the Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce...
...long as the tiny (pop. 12,000) Republic of San Marino in northern Italy could make money selling its postage stamps to philatelists, it was happy. It also picked up a few dollars from tourists curious to see a nation of 38 mountainous square miles which calls itself the oldest republic (1,650 years) in the world. Nobody cared that for the past six years the Republic of San Marino had been Communist-run, the only Stalinist state outside the Iron Curtain...