Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...string ensemble strummed Happy Days Are Here Again and, for a while, it almost seemed as though the Democrats had never fallen upon unhappy days. In the hotel lobby party workers raffled off a mink coat, while in the Fairmont's Cirque Room, Democrats clustered admiringly around James Heavey, a 30-year-old draftsman who won a place in the Democratic hagiology when he had a brush with Secret Service men last year after heckling Vice President Richard Nixon at a San Mateo rally...
...Missouri. "The Prime Minister . . . was considered unsuitable because he was the Emperor's uncle . . . [The] Vice Premier . . . shunned the ordeal. Finally, the mission was assigned to Foreign Minister Shigemitsu." He was the little Japanese who stumped into history ten years ago this week, grotesque in frock coat and topper amid the tieless suntans of MacArthur's conquerors, to sign the surrender papers and take his nation's disgrace upon his bowed shoulders. One U.S. general recalled: "The Japanese plenipotentiary had a little trouble with...
Died. Harry Leslie Chorlton, 85, artist and engraver who designed the Great Seal of the U.S. on the one-dollar bill, as well as a 3? stamp, Treasury seals, and U.S. coat of arms; of pneumonia; in Altadena, Calif...
...hiding under his bed or in the closet; sometimes it was not a girl but a grown-up woman. One night a well-known society belle walked up and asked him for his autograph-on her brassiere. On another occasion a woman walked into his room wearing a mink coat-and nothing underneath. Frank Sinatra coped with each situation as best he could...
...temples with silver, was meticulously combed. The talcum was in place. He wore the tinted glasses that are his trademark. He sat at a grey, formica-topped kitchen table and, in the manner of a man aware of his clothes, hiked up his big shoulders, thereby pulling up his coat-sleeves to reveal his gleaming cufflinks. Passing through the kitchen was De Sapio's 17-year-old daughter Geraldine (whose fierce pride in her father has led to her attaching to his initials. C.G.D., the phrase, "Country's Greatest Democrat"). About to begin her freshman year at Notre...