Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents that ranged from the flat twang of the Western plains through Teutonic gutterals and mellifluous Urdu to the cool precision of Oxford English. And they weren't all Tom and Harry. There were Karls and Kims and Bongs and Phyas and Mohammed Alis and Yoshinoris and Joaquins and Chaunceys as well. Their identification tags bore legends as disparate as "Funeral Director, Waxahachie, Texas" and "Medicine, Wagga Wagga, Australia...
Soon afterward, assuring his people that the World Bank's Black would pay them a cool 10% on all loans, the President pocketed the money and slipped off to Antwerp to buy a $60,000 yacht. Re-christened the President Robert, the vessel was stocked with 1,068 bottles of vintage liquors, some 200,000 cigarettes, a supply of fine cigars and other necessities for gracious living on a long voyage. Then, on July 18, 1951, loaded with its complement of happy internationalists, each equipped with passport and currency bearing the signature of President Robert, it set sail, ostensibly...
Handy Coolers. Light, expendable cartons to keep beer cool on hot-weather picnics are being put out by Milwaukee's Blatz Brewing Co. and Pabst. The Blatz carton, made of cardboard laminated to aluminum foil, carries a dozen cans of beer, has a Pliofilm bag along the bottom for ice, and sells for 15?. The Pabst carton (no extra cost) is a regular 24-can case lined with waterproof, resin-impregnated paper. Crushed ice, scattered among the cans, chills beer in 30 minutes...
...little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that's all"-but his daemon kept driving him, and a year later he had another standout herd. It was a disastrous venture because it was dedicated to the dying bop style and cost him a cool $175,000 before he could break it up. Three years ago, unhappy fronting small combos with his clarinet and sax, Woody Herman was rounding up his Third Herd, by last week had groomed it to top form...
...thrush's song. An example of Corot at his best is his Blonde Gasconne (opposite), the public favorite at the Smith College Museum of Art. In this simple picture the pearly atmosphere is conveyed as only Corot could, and the girl seems almost a condensation of the cool sea air. She is an unforgettable presence, melancholy and mysterious as a peasant Mona Lisa. Corot started off strong. He was blessed with deep feeling for nature, instinctive taste and a large allowance from his family. At 29 he went to Italy and immediately started painting the best landscapes...