Word: colored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tony Bonner's music was the high spot of the show in the composing department. With imagination, variety, and a beautiful sense of timing and color, Bonner has woven a scorer which should stand comparison with the best of Pudding music. His orchestration is brassy where it should be, and borrows a bare minimum from the all-too-familiar body of Latin American songs on the market...
...world's greatest men." A somewhat backhanded tribute also came from a young U.S. Army officer, a Southerner, who is a member of Bundle's staff: "I always swore I'd never work for a Nigra. Well, Dr. Bunche is a real man. His color just happens to be a little different...
...Arthur Godfrey has probably caused the biggest uproar among would-be censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman in the living...
...planned to kick off its new models with the biggest advertising campaign in its history. Every major U.S. newspaper has been carrying full-page ads, and the splurge in Canada will be "the greatest ever conducted by a U.S. corporation." There, four major magazines will carry twelve-page color inserts. Said a Chrysler executive: "We are proceeding as if the buyer's market is already here...
...Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...