Word: black
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straus 11-32 is cursed, not by a ghost or a biddy, but by a telephone. David G. Black, Raymond S. Ettlinger, Michael J. Balborstam and John B. Stadler, all freshmen occupants of the room, refer to Mr. Bell's invention as "that damn thing...
...looking forward to the Christmas rush season," complained Stadler as he answered an insistant ring. It was someone asking for Dr. Myers. "The National Research Foundation is Eliot 4-5400," explained Black as he left for Lamont...
Meanwhile Mrs. Barkley dropped in at the Metropolitan Opera in a bare-shouldered black evening dress that prompted the Daily News to headline: MRS. VP'S STRAPLESS GOWN KO'S TOWN. Visiting backstage after the Veep rejoined her, she obligingly posed for cameramen and confided to Tristan und Isolde Stars Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior: "What the boys want is some Hollywood cheesecake from...
...office, President Alvarez sounded an optimistic note-for the future. Said she: "We have shows from all of the TV networks and a small staff (22). Maybe that way we can prove it needn't take years to get into the black." Standing by, Business Partner George Cameron said, grinning happily: "We can keep going if the oil wells keep pumping...
...first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World War II, broad, black-haired Isaiah Berlin developed two bad habits: he was always late to work (he likes to sleep until 10:30), and always the last to appear at a dinner party. No one minded. His flashing dinner talk never failed to charm Washington hostesses and capital pundits. And his brilliant reports on U.S. thinking and doing made him Winston Churchill's most penetrating official observer of wartime America...