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Teresita Montez modelling in 1956
In the first two photos, Teresita is modelling Jacques Heim designs for his 1956 Sring/Summer collection. These two photos were printed at German magazine Stern.
The second image comes from US press and Teresita is seen in the middle.
You can see the HQ photo in this post.
Stern number 9, 3rd March 1956.
St. Louis Post Dispatch, 4th March 1956.
The Internet Archive.
Marguerite Martyn (September 26, 1878 – April 17, 1948) was an American journalist and political cartoonist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the early 20th century. She was noted as much for her published sketches as for her articles.
She also wrote about women's fashion and the women's suffrage movement, "in which she was enthusiastically interested."
One Direction singer's sold-out concert was originally scheduled for 2020.
Remember when the pandemic forced all those 2020 concerts to move to 2022? Those delayed shows are rolling out now, including Louis Tomlinson’s long-sold-out concert Saturday night at the Pageant.
Originally scheduled for July 2020, the English pop-rock singer who rose to fame as part of One Direction was finally able to make good on his St. Louis date. Fans started lining up outside the Pageant, in freezing temperatures, the night before in order to lock in prime positions near the stage.
Tomlinson opened the show with “We Made It,” from his 2020 debut album, “Walls,” and that song choice seemed to sum up the sentiment of the delayed tour finally getting underway. Fans were clearly overwhelmed by Tomlinson’s long-anticipated presence.
“I’ve been waiting for this moment, specifically thinking what it might be like," he told the screaming crowd. "Anyone else waiting for this gig? I got a good feeling about it.”
He later added: “St. Louie, it feels (expletive) good to be in a place that’s my namesake.”
Accompanied by a five-piece band on a simple stage with little more than a back wall of lighting, Tomlinson kept the energy high, a task that seemed easy enough considering the crowd's built-in excitement.
“Already I’m starting to feel like it might be the loudest show,” Tomlinson said.
While the unassuming Tomlinson may not be as big or buzzy as his One Direction comrade Harry Styles (who sold out the much larger Enterprise Center in 2021), he's doing his own thing — and it works. It’s doubtful Tomlinson will play venues the size of the Pageant after this tour.
His 90-minute set leaned heavily on “Walls,” with songs such as “Too Young,” “Two of Us,” “Habit,” “Always You,” “Don’t Let It Break Your Heart" and “Fearless,” catchy if occasionally disposable pop that left the crowd swooning and singing along.
Tomlinson gave his fans the One Direction they needed, embracing his roots with three songs spread throughout the show: “Drag Me Down,” “Little Black Dress” and “Through the Dark,” the latter surfacing in the encore.
With just one album under his belt, he not only filled out the set with 1D songs, but with a few covers and a collaboration. He called his take on Kings of Leon’s “Beautiful War” one of his favorite moments on the tour and embraced a rock turn with Catfish and the Bottlemen’s “7,” inviting audience members to sing along.
He also treated the crowd to “Just Hold On,” which he recorded with DJ-producer Steve Aoki.
After an abrupt close to the title track, “Walls,” followed by some awkward dead time, Tomlinson and the band bounced back for an encore that included “Only the Brave” and “Kill My Mind.”
Southern California band Sun Room opened the show.
Photos by Jon Gitchoff.
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Some people ask me how I got so radicalized towards cars.
This is how:
Drivers flee the scene in almost 40% of crashes in the city, according to data from St. Louis police. In all, 42,810 crashes have been reported in the city since the beginning of 2021. Of those, 16,740 — or 39.1% — involved at least one driver leaving the scene. The data underscores the city's long struggle with reckless driving and disastrous collisions as traffic fatalities have spiked by about 55% in recent years. In response to the growing concerns, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones and aldermen in March approved $40 million to build traffic-calming infrastructure such as medians, traffic circles and bumped-out curbs, among other things, on roads throughout the city.
(Dana Rieck, "Nearly 40% of crashes in St. Louis are hit-and-runs, according to police data," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov 2 2023)
Or, as Randal "xkcd" Munroe put it recently ...
Human beings have demonstrated that they are incapable of safely driving modern automobiles and can no longer be trusted with them.
Oh, not you? That's what everybody says. No, you're perfectly safe? Yeah, but a place that makes it easy for you to drive makes the assholes, the sickos, the callous and crazy have no choice but to drive, so there's no stopping them. I'm done tolerating this. Fuck cars.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey deserves the court challenge he’s almost certain to get for construing the GOP-manufactured controve
"The state constitution mentions the word 'emergency' 40 times, always in the context of gubernatorial powers or a request by the governor for the Legislature to declare an emergency, such as during an enemy attack. Neither the constitution nor Missouri state code mention any power by the attorney general to invoke emergency powers."
Candidate A: I'm non-partisan.
Candidate B: I'm a Republican.
US Office of Special Counsel: Sorry, candidate A, that means you're a Democrat now.
Everybody else: What the fuck, man?
(See Blythe Bernhard & Jack Suntrup, "Political activism heats up St. Louis suburban school board races," St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 19, 2023. Soft-paywalled link.)
