Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leopold Stokowski, then 63, a divorced veteran of two previous marriages and of a well-publicized journey (to Tunis, Stockholm, and Ravello's Villa Cimbrone) with Greta Garbo. Like Garbo and Leopold themselves, Gloria had by this time developed a considerable talent for gaining publicity by seeming to avoid it. Her furtive elopement with the famed maestro from the town of Truckee, Calif, was attended by at least one reporter. At her first accouchement she took the precaution of registering at the hospital under a false name, thereby assuring detailed reports of the event in the newspapers...
presence. "We must avoid the errors of the past. If there had been a single...
Royal Schooling. Over a long luncheon and until late into the afternoon, avoiding mention of Don Juan's own claims to the throne (Franco has never forgiven him for certain anti-Franco remarks made in 1945), they discussed the education of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria. The 17-year-old Juanito has just completed his secondary education at Madrid's aristocratic St. Isideo high school and is at present staying with his exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters...
Warned to make their designs "harmonize with the historically developed architecture of Moscow" and not to copy "the ugly system of capitalist building," Stalin's draftsmen spread their efforts over acres of ground, but in reaching for height, they were unable to avoid imitating at least one American skyscraper. The Moscow vysotnye zdania or "tall buildings," bear a marked resemblance to New York's 1913 Woolworth building, but to Woolworth Gothic the Soviet architects added adornments borrowed from classical sources, and some of their own devising. Thus all eight vysotnye carry tall spires mounting garlanded Red Stars...
...million copies of horror comics sold on U.S. and Canadian newsstands every month will soon have a new "Dior Look." Under the new voluntary Comic Book Code adopted by the industry to avoid state and community censorship (TIME, Nov. 8), heroines have been redrawn with less obvious curves and more obvious clothes. Comic Book Censor Charles F. Murphy, a former New York City magistrate, announced last week that his staff has already ordered revisions of 5,656 drawings, 25% involving the "reduction of feminine curves to more natural dimensions." Other changes: witchlike villains with wiry hair and fanglike teeth have...