Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goatee aflutter, walrus mustache aquiver, Colonel Harrison Gray Otis, 48, late of the Union Army and-in 1886-editor of the Los Angeles Times (circ. 2,500), fired his editorial cannon ball into the boom-frantic town by the Pacific. To the pueblo settlement seething with rainbow chasers, this shot barked out a gruff prophecy: thenceforward, the Times and her guardians would man the lanyard of Los Angeles' destiny...
...Strings & Opportunity. For two years the big boom thundered on. "Los Angeles people," Editor Otis loftily assured prospective settlers, "do not carry arms. Indians are a curiosity, the gee string is not a common article of apparel here, and Los Angeles has three good hotels, 27 churches and 350 telephone subscribers." But the boom grew voracious. Real estate was traded over and over in a day; men sold their places in the restive land-office queues, joined the end of the line to begin buying again. Mountaintop lots made paper millionaires out of penniless speculators. Before Harrison Otis could slow...
...full power; the cunning and untrusting old hands around the Presidium were united by one resolve-not to let one man get such power over them again. And so the Soviet myth of collective leadership spread. They were all presumably such buddies: "I'm heavy industry, boom, boom!" said Khrushchev at one diplomatic reception. Then he tapped Malenkov on the shoulder: "And Georgy here is light industry, peep, peep...
Paging Krafft-Ebing. Built during the Florida boom, the pink hotel is "a Mistinguett, a Magda Lupescu among hotels-old and slightly raddled . . . waiting patiently for the chosen few who could afford its haughty hospitality." The raffish oddballs who people the Dennis-Erskine hotel are pretty special, and would have raised Krafft-Ebing's interest if not his eyebrows. There is T. J. Sturt III, a millionaire alcoholic who wears a pink girdle and phones random city fire departments to announce blazes of mysterious origin. There is seventyish L. Harvey Crull Jr., who puts under doors pamphlets announcing...
Augsburg (July 30-Aug. 11) has gone Italian. When the city fathers decided four years ago to get in on the festival boom and started looking around for an uncommitted composer, they found to ;heir distress that the supply of Germans iad been exhausted: Ansbach and Leipzig lad Bach; Bonn had Beethoven; Bayreuth had Wagner; Munich had Richard Strauss. Partly because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi...