Word: adornment
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This week the 104-year-old Gazette, now a pale, thin shade of its once fat and enormously profitable self, got a new girl. Unlike the heroine of Irving Berlin's hit of the '30s, she was no brunette chorus cutie to adorn its cover, but a long-legged, thirtyish blonde newshen to be its boss...
...Homes in Flint, Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long Island. The Levitt boys knock a new house together every 16 minutes, adorn their latest model with such creature comforts as fireplaces as well as modern touches, e.g., picture windows and movable walls that double as closets...
Fredericks, 41, a World War II veteran, to design a suitable statue to adorn a fountain on Cleveland's Mall...
When the U.S. Treasury published its annual list of 1947's top U.S. salaries this week, the cinemactors who usually adorn it were conspicuous by their absence. National Theaters' Charles P. Skouras, who has led the list for two years, topped it again with $810,000 in salary and bonuses (before taxes). But in the next nine on the list, there was only one Hollywoodian, Movie Director Preston Sturges.* All the rest were corporate bigwigs...
...bewahren, nicht drängen!-keep quiet, don't push. Those words we shall never forget. They have served us well during this blockade.' "If ever there are monuments raised to commemorate democracy's victory in the battle of Berlin, there are plenty of heroes to adorn them. In their weary, often grumbling and fumbling way, it was Berlin's plain people who won the battle-the people who met in huge rallies to hurl their defiance from the shadow of the Red-flag-topped Brandenburger Tor, the people who turned out in bitter cold last...