Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abhorred is Editor Marcel Déat of L'Oeuvre, who with Laval was wounded last summer by Nazi-hating young Paul Colette (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week Editor Déat lectured at Tours. Someone threw a sputtering missile at him. After it had bounced off his coat, he snuffed out its fuse. German newspapers said it was a bomb, French that it was only a pétard (firecracker), not powerful enough to hoist hefty Editor...
Dreamer-up and director of this big business is bald, bespectacled Ned Irish, a mild, well-mannered, colorless man of 35, who looks more like a high-school Latin teacher than the spittoon-bombarding type of promoter. Ned Irish never owned a camel's-hair coat. After graduating from Penn, he wrote college sports first for Philadelphia newspapers, then on the World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn...
...that the game is overemphasized there. Overemphasized or not, they are fine shows that Ned Irish produces. This year, while the finals were being played, a lady in a box narrowly escaped being slugged by her husband because in her excitement she tore handfuls of mink from her mink coat...
...feminine admirer once gaped at Big Red's magnificent glossy coat. "Why doesn't my hair look like that?" she asked. "Lady, yours don't get this much care and brushin'," the groom answered...
...some extra folding money to put into inventories. Then, after more "secret" Washington powwows, the proposed restrictions "become known to even the obscure assistant buyer of The Big Store of Podunk" and manufacturers find themselves "forced into annoying and exasperating off-season production" (e.g., women's fall coat production in January and February was 30% above a year...