Word: stringbean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Radcliffe girl in signalling thumbs down on the new look, the Harvard man is picking it up with enthusiasm. The well-dressed man is becoming narrower and narrower--the stringbean look now dominates proper male fashions...
Word has it that the stringbean silhouette is the thing this Spring. But Radcliffe refuses to go along with the lines dictated by the experts. As far as the 'Cliffe is concerned, the stringbean silhouette falls flat...
Baugh let his passing arm do the talking for him. Year after year his slingshot passes-bullet "buttonhooks" or pinpointed "floaters"-found their mark on the field and in the National Football League record books. He picked up such nicknames as the "Redskin Rifle," the "Sweetwater Stringbean," and, naturally, "Slingin' Sam." And in the rough & tumble N.F.L., sinewy Sam Baugh, the kid who was once considered too fragile for college football, never once had a serious injury, never broke a bone...