Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Received an unexpected gift : a handsome color photograph of Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, his wife, two daughters, a son-in-law and a granddaughter, against a background of blooming nasturtiums (see NEWS IN PICTURES). White House Press Secretary James Hagerty thought that he had an explanation of Zhukov's gift. At the Geneva Conference, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev told President Eisenhower that Zhukov had passed up his younger daughter's wedding in Moscow in order to attend the conference and to see his old comrade-in-arms. The President promptly presented an autographed...
WHILE a TIME Researcher, Mary Ellen Lukas, roamed through Hoboken, searching for background material for this week's cover story on Frank Sinatra, Cinema Editor Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. was on vacation in Europe, still unaware that his first job upon returning would be to write the Sinatra story. Meanwhile, Correspondent Ezra Goodman scoured Hollywood, pursuing Sinatra himself. The West Coast chase led Goodman from Sinatra's luxurious duplex on Wilshire Boulevard through recording studios and an Italian restaurant to the singer-actor's sumptuous dressing room...
...installment buying (TIME. March 7). But the new Eden government has so far had little success in settling labor disputes, and the National Coal Board has been forced to back down in its attempt to bring in Italians to help Britain mine its own coal. "There is no traditional background for the employment of foreigners," huffed the insular National Union of Mine Workers...
...ceremonial "B and B" (Brahms and bourbon). The Brahms comes from an elaborate hi-fi set and, during the music, Selby spends an hour or so reading his mail. Selby's three children have made occasional appearances on his television show, usually as a background audience, munching hot dogs and potato chips, washed down with milk. They are not particularly impressed-possibly because there is no TV set in the Selby home...
...Sapio's reactions to his problem is to bear down on the Italians around him. An aide says: "If an Italian name comes up at the Hall for a prominent public job, Carmine goes into his background with as much thoroughness as J. Edgar Hoover, a thing he never does with an Irishman or a Jew." De Sapio can also set a personal example. His present job as Secretary of State pays him $17,000 a year, the most he has ever made, and never once in his career has there been any evidence that he makes money from...