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Suddenly, Ike found himself in a covey of society reporters who wanted to know which dress he liked best. He easily ruled out Grace Coolidge's red velvet, low-waisted, high-hemmed style of the '20s. "A little odd," thought the President. Then, glancing to see that Mamie was out of earshot, he blurted, "I guess I like that one on Mrs. McKinley." Ida Saxton McKinley was indeed handsome in high-necked, ivory-hued satin with flowing train. Not pretty oldfashioned? asked a newshen. "Well, I guess so," Ike admitted, reluctant to be pinned down any more...
...discouraged. Last year 26 international airlines crisscrossed Germany for a gross of 225 million DM ($53.6 million). In December alone, they carried 114,000 passengers (25% German). Lufthansa has already set up shop in Europe's largest, most modern hangar, in Hamburg, hired 700 employees, including a covey of trim stewardesses. Its bosses, moreover, are no novices in the harshly competitive airline business, but old hands. Hans M. Bongers, Lufthansa's chief, ran the line's prewar business department; Technical Director Gerhard Höltje is another veteran...
...more stops than usual. On CBS's Shower of Stars, Sponsor Chrysler gave its viewers almost a solid hour of commercial as it unveiled an endless succession of Plymouths, Dodges, DeSotos, Chryslers. This, an announcer assured the nation, "is the night all America has been waiting for!" A covey of actors, including Groucho Marx, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Eddie Mayehoff, were asked to coo and croon over convertibles, station wagons and sedans. In between plugs there were occasional songs by Betty Grable, horn tootings by Harry James and jokes by Ed Wynn. Groucho had nothing noncommercial...
...covey of network executives also appeared for the defense. Merle Jones, a CBS vice president, was able to boast that a CBS psychologist had concluded that "TV programs do not cause juvenile delinquency, nor do they constitute one of the several causes." One executive argued that TV shows were no more violent than fairy tales ("Mother Goose is full of acts of violence"), and ABC Vice President Robert Hinckley, who appeared out of patience with the whole idea of a hearing, said that TV "is a very young industry, while juvenile delinquency is very, very...
...flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles" turn into "a covey of sitting ducks." One of them also turns into a dead pigeon. The others boozing, cynical or hitting the Prufrock-bottom of resignation-live by remembering. Almost everybody sooner or later tries to shoot himself or else to write a book. Promising Author Morris (The Works of Love, The Deep Sleep...