Word: bows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh and buoyant in a blue print dress and matching turban, Mamie Eisenhower took a few practice swings, baseball-style, then smashed a champagne bottle frothily on the looming bow, pronouncing the traditional formula: "I christen thee N.S. [for nuclear ship] Savannah.* Godspeed." After a second's hesitation, America's first nuclear-powered merchant vessel slid easily down the ways at Camden, N.J. and into the waters of the Delaware...
...MODELS will be introduced earlier this fall than in other years, with 16 of 19 models scheduled by first half of October. Ford's Falcon is expected to bow first, followed by Chevrolet's small car, Corvair, and other General Motors makes, American Motors, Chrysler and Studebaker-Packard...
Best Year. Dealer Koetser rose to take a modest bow. "I was prepared to go much higher," he admitted. "I think the value was much more than the price." Koetser was far from through for the day. In all, he bought eight paintings, two of them-an El Greco for $201,600 and a Frans Hals for $134,400-for the same client who had commissioned him to buy the Rubens. As to who the unknown collector was, Koetser would only say that he was "definitely a British collector," male, who had no other...
This Tuesday, however, the famed Schneider's Band will serenade the happy few from the steps of Widener Library--on the Tuesdays following, through August 4, the Union will bow to the music and dancing of the Westland...
Happy Pixy. At first glance the situation seems appalling. Has the town that nourished the pneumatic legends of Theda Bara and Clara Bow and Jean Harlow sold out to a giggly beer drinker? Answers...