Word: colletion
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...bosom. This was a precedent-shattering break from the tradition established by such rivals as Faye Emerson (known as "the girl who put the V in TV") and blonde Actress Eva Gabor who, last week, unquestionably won the neckline sweepstakes by assembling on her show her entire décolleté family (pretty sisters Magda and Sari, mother Jolie) in a memorable display of dazzling shoulders and Hungarian accents...
Died. Montagu Collet Norman, Baron Norman of St. Clere, 78, fox-bearded "Sphinx of Threadneedle Street," who as Governor of the Bank of England (1920-44) ruled the Empire's finances with a skilled and autocratic hand; in London. Attempting to rebuild the international monetary structure shattered by World War I, Norman, with the approval of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, pushed Britain back onto the gold standard in 1925, was bitterly criticized when the worldwide breakdown forced her off again in 1931. When he finally stepped down, he had held office longer than any other Governor...
...three: Democrat Albert A. Ridge, onetime bugler in Harry Truman's Battery D; Truman Crony J. Caskie Collet; Republican Albert L. Reeves Sr., whose son defeated Enos Axtell, Harry Truman's nominee to succeed Slaughter, in the November elections...
...hard-driving regimen Harry Truman had staked out for himself when he first entered the White House. But it now revolves around a brand-new operating routine. The old days of government by cronies are gone, and so are most of the cronies (Jake Vardaman, Ed McKim, John Caskie Collet, George Allen, et al.). The President now has a new, tightly knit staff and a new administrative procedure which makes full use of his Cabinet...
John S. Sumner, tireless peeper for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, clucked at current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...