Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long lines in front of the annual Christmas week show at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the picket lines in Detroit, the lines of dazzling lights reappearing on the trees along Hollywood Boulevard-all these, in their own manner, offered proof that the U.S. was back to some kind of normalcy after four years of war. The uniforms were disappearing; the face of the land and the face of the people took on a prewar complexion...
Slip of the Hand. But when Perc and his brothers branched out into the beauty business in 1933, in a pink-brocaded, chromium and black-glass salon on Sunset Boulevard, their, hand slipped. None had any business sense. The House of Westmore almost folded before they hired a businessman, S. Willard Isaacs, former owner of a local beauty-shop chain, to run it. He still runs the House of Westmore. Last year it grossed $2,225,000 from the sale of Westmore products, $300,000 more from the salon, paid the brothers both salaries and handsome dividends...
...King with a Flutter. But the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were gay. After five years of living death in the tranquil Bahamas, the world's most publicized hedonists were fluttery with the anticipation of returning to Paris. Their elegant mansion at 24 boulevard Suchet in the fashionable Passy quarter had not been molested by the Germans. It was ready to receive the ducal pair. Weeks ago the Duchess had cabled her instructions to the decorators (her bedroom was to be midnight blue and white). Another cable had brought the Paris hat now in the high hatbox...
...main floors. But there was enough fuel for heat. If famine threatened, the Duke's chef de cuisine, Maitre Le Laurin, a magician with truffles and morilles, was assured of rations from the British Embassy. And the Germans had not drunk all the vintage wines. From the boulevard Suchet they could go down again to the Côte d'Azur, to long walks in the grounds of their villa La Cröe and basks in the Mediterranean...
...there were some who also wanted a look at America's victorious leaders. The Chicago Daily News clamored for Eisenhower's return, suggested parades down Fifth Avenue and Michigan Boulevard. Said the News: "General Eisenhower's visit would be like the seventh-inning stretch in a critical ball game...