Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, 52, learned, clear-thinking Foreign Affairs editor, behind-the-scenes adviser on U.S. foreign policy; and Carman Barnes, 32, author, whose sexy, best-selling first novel (Schoolgirl) at 16 brought her fame, fortune and raised a good many eyebrows; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...trick is a mild, little, wild-haired British professor, I. A. (for Ivor Armstrong) Richards, the Western Hemisphere's No. 1 apostle of Basic English. Says he: "It takes only 400 words of Basic to run a battleship. With 850 words you can run the planet...
...Manhattan, gravel-voiced Robert H. Armstrong, vice president of the New York Building Congress, gave vent to what he termed a fundamental economic principle: "The cure for high prices is more high prices. . . ." Frank W. Cortright, executive vice president of the National Association of Home Builders, damned price controls as "unrealistic...
Flit Guns and Shotguns. Such nonsense is the highly profitable stock-in-trade of a professional primitive named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. For five years he beat the drums in John Scott Trotter's slick sweet band, accompanying Bing Crosby's radio show. It bored him. One day he decided "to louse up some old cornplasters like Chloe." During rehearsals he began to experiment in sound effects as a substitute for music...
Artist Rolf Armstrong, who gets $12,-ooo a picture for painting B & B's most popular girls, said it was a natural tribute to "the beauty of figure that seems to happen only in the American girl...