A Little Lawyerly Advice

caryc

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You'll poke someone's eye out with those things kid ! Who doesn't know this lawyer?

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It's from a hit and run case "Death by Dagmar"

In 1953, the bumper guards became much more bold, and stylistically significant. Harley Earl's idea, as executed by Cadillac designer Ed Glowacke, was that the bumper guards would mimic exaggerated artillery shells, in order to indicate speed and power.

In 1950s auto design, the slang term Dagmar bumper emerged to describe dual pointed chrome projections on the front ends of Cadillacs, Buicks, Packards, and other U.S. automobiles, an allusion to the actress's physique and trademark attire. So who was Dagmar? If you're younger than the age of 60, you probably don't remember, but Dagma was once described by Life magazine as a "national institution," and a nationwide poll of editors in the 1950s voted Dagmar "the most photogenic girl on TV."
 

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It's from a hit and run case "Death by Dagmar"

In 1953, the bumper guards became much more bold, and stylistically significant. Harley Earl's idea, as executed by Cadillac designer Ed Glowacke, was that the bumper guards would mimic exaggerated artillery shells, in order to indicate speed and power.

In 1950s auto design, the slang term Dagmar bumper emerged to describe dual pointed chrome projections on the front ends of Cadillacs, Buicks, Packards, and other U.S. automobiles, an allusion to the actress's physique and trademark attire. So who was Dagmar? If you're younger than the age of 60, you probably don't remember, but Dagma was once described by Life magazine as a "national institution," and a nationwide poll of editors in the 1950s voted Dagmar "the most photogenic girl on TV."
Sorry, I'm 76 and never heard of her.
 
Quite an interesting woman who enjoyed a very lengthy and successful career. And originally a small town girl too.
 
I went back to that Wikipedia article and read the whole thing. They mentioned the TV show "Mama". I remember that show. It was about an immigrant family (Norwegian I think). I even remember some of the characters. There was Mama and Lars the father and Nels the son and Dagmar the youngest daughter. The show always started with one of the daughters saying "I remember Mama".

But I'll be darned if I can remember the lady we're talking about.
 
If you didn't remember Dagmar you must have lived in a farmhouse that didn't have a TV till 1970.
 

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