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Chicago and was of Irish descent. His father, Harry S. Conover, was a bigamist who later left the family shortly after he was born. Conover's mother, Mary Byrnes Conover, wanted him to become a priest. Conover said he was not only poor, but also uneducated. Conover went to school at
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for a modeling job. His friend got nervous and
Conover did the talking for both of them, landing both of them jobs as models. While Powers had a near monopoly on models at the time, Conover eventually worked his way into becoming a competitor and a personal friend.
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He married Gloria Dalton in 1940. Dalton had modeled for
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Peekskill
Military Academy and later worked a variety of jobs including being a dough mixer, being a disc jockey and a tie salesman. He later became a radio soap opera performer. He accompanied a female friend to an interview at the
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Conover had unique ideas about modelling, saying that models needed "deglamorized" and preferred his models to have a "natural outdoors" look over a "sophisticated" look. Conover also looked for what he called, "that inner glow".
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In 1939, Conover invested $ 500 into a one-room office which served as the headquarters of the "Conover Model Agency". A decade later, he had 12 suites in the same building and was making over $ 2,000,000 a year.
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Conover's modeling agency collapsed in 1959. He was being sued for withholding money from models and his agency lost its license. Conover then began working for
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in 1946 and the couple had three children together. The couple divorced in 1959 At the time of his death, Conover had five children and a grandson.
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