Word: cosmopolitanization
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...Times is published in New York, New York, where geography may be a neglected science since many of the inhabitants are convinced that there is no other place. Nevertheless, in a cosmopolitan city like New York, New York, we should think that while the Times's educated readers might require Cairo, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois would be equivalent to Heaven, Universe. There is only...
...cars. But last week, seeing a flood of price rises all around him, young Henry took his finger out of the hole in the dike. He boosted prices on the company's 1951 models an average of 5.5% (from $87.50 on the cheapest Ford to $185 on Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles). Same day, General Motors Corp. raised prices an average of almost 5% on its 1951 models. These were the first price boosts among the auto industry's Big Three in nearly two years. The reason, said both companies, was simply that their material and labor costs had scooted...
Stafford (Boston Adventure) command a cosmopolitan confidence that makes a lot of their male counterparts read like sentimental softies raised on Louisa May Alcott. Since the new school is now threatened with overcrowding, it is a relief to find New York-born Elizabeth Pollet enrolling elsewhere with her first novel. A Family Romance has its faults, but they are not those of the self-assurance school; at its best, A Family Romance achieves a rare, fresh tone of youthful warmth and wonder...
...book circles were fascinated. As the story had it, Hemingway wanted to get some things down on paper that he had never managed to say before; Across the River was going to be the Hemingway credo in a nutshell. When a magazine version of the book appeared in Cosmopolitan earlier this year, it raised other questions. Wasn't the novel's hero a pretty thinly disguised version of Hemingway himself? What was Hemingway trying to say about Allied commanders in World War II? And-in view of the book's flaws-was Hemingway satisfied with...
Cinemactress Jane Wyman, who just won Britain's annual Picturegoer's award for her performance of a deaf-mute in Johnny Belinda, told readers of Cosmopolitan magazine that women talk too much: "A girl does not lose dignity by silence. She loses it by talking for the obvious purpose of just saying something...