Word: colorable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Response. All through Taft's speech Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had sat slouched in his chair, doodling with a pencil. Now he sprang to his feet, the color rising in his face. "I should think," he said, "[that] the Senator from Ohio would join me among the very first. ... If he found that those with whom we were cooperating were doing what we had contemplated and hoped for ... he would be the first to say it was a golden opportunity to continue this program...
General Dwight Eisenhower, after only 2½ weeks in civvies, made the Custom. Tailors Guild's annual list of the Ten Best-Dressed Men. What got him the votes: his "erect bearing and easy stance" combined with his "discriminating sense of color and style...
...because "except for drawing, the subjects were a nuisance," and since then he has almost always managed to avoid steady work. His new temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle Art Museum...
...President Frank Stanton, who had huffily cut down on television expansion when FCC refused to go along with CBS's color system, was busily making up for lost time. He was hustling to finish two studios in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal building, at an estimated cost of $700,000. He said the studios would be the "nation's largest television studio plant." CBS, which has a network of four stations, also bought 33% interest in Madison Square Garden Corp. to strengthen its franchise on big sports events...
...Last spring I did a piece about a split in the French Communist Party. I needed a slab of color to make the story live [Laguerre got quite a slab, including a scene in which Communist Jacques Duclos nervously knocked over an ashtray, crawled under the table after it]; but what I chiefly needed to write were big chunks of guidance. It was an unusual story, going against the notions of TIME readers and TIME editors, who have seen so much evidence of Communist discipline and solidarity that they would find it hard to believe in the split...