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...roll star badly in need of a square meal. He weighs but 125 lbs. and consequently looks a foot taller than his 5 ft. 9 in. He wears his brown hair long and his sideburns an inch below the ears. His agile fingers could well be the longest and skinniest since the days of Nicolo Paganini...
...Paris this year, the spring-summer haute couture collections emphasize an elegant simplicity, feminine and slender. Gone is the "tent," except as a thin summer coat, tightly belted. Dresses are either close-fitting sheaths and tubes -as at Saint Laurent, who showed the skinniest of all, faintly reminiscent of the long T shirts popular a while back in ready-to-wear-or fairly full skirted with waists clearly marked by tucks and belts, as Givenchy does them. Suits emphasize the midriff too, with slim skirts, or skirts tucked to the hipbone, worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey...
...heroine of the title story is Melba Toast, "the skinniest stripper in America." Blonde and randy, Melba wears the longest fake eyelashes in New York and the tightest clothes. Aging millionaires delight in lending her their Cadillacs and shower her with $100 bills. Melba is a direct descendant of Lorelei Lee in Anita Loos's 1925 bestseller, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and, like Lorelei, has a mousy girl friend to come along on double dates...
...University of Washington's Huskies seemed to belie their nickname. They were the tallest and skinniest of eleven crews that lined up at Poughkeepsie last week for the big race. Said shrewd Coach Al Ulbrickson: "As long as my crew averages 6 ft. 3, I never worry about weight." He found plenty of other things to worry about...
Brewster Aeronautical Corp. (Newark, N.J.) needed mechanics who could crawl inside flying-boat wings, hold rivets in place while workmen outside hammered away with rivet guns. Brewster's skinniest workers found the chore a squeezing torture, could stand it for only a few minutes at a time. Along came 19-year-old Johnny Giovenco ("Johnny Gee" for short), a Brooklyn mechanic who usually had a hard time getting a job because he was only four feet high, weighed 88 Ib. He quickly got an inside job with Brewster. After New York newspapers printed his picture, little men swarmed...