Word: crewcut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crewcut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural for three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxophone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
...manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of the utter antithesis to the approved club type, imagine an inarticulate, introverted, morbidly shy sophomore from a small town in the provinces. He wears outlandish ties, dirty sweaters, and baggy pants. Not only lacking a crewcut, he is in bad need of a barber nearly all the time and obviously shaves but rarely. Until he arrived at the university he was educated in mediocre public schools, the whole of life to him lies in doddling with mathematics, and his idea of kicks is playing the violin...
...Connecticut General executives fanned out over the country, picked S.O.M.'s Gordon Bunshaft and William S. Brown, the team that had designed Manhattan's medal-winning Lever House (TIME, April 28, 1952) and Manufacturers Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch (TIME,' Aug. 31, 1953). In crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with related forms, the other on Mies van der Rohe's precise, modular construction...
From the cluttered studio of Detroit's station WXYZ came rumblings that a fresh new talent had successfully invaded the troubled precincts of TV comedy: a youthful (31), crewcut, putty-faced buffoon named Soupy Sales (real: Milton Hines), whose daily kiddie show, Comics, has outpulled such network favorites as Arthur Godfrey Time and the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show to become the top-rated daytime show in the area. Late each night Soupy's on in Soupy's On with a cultivated zaniness and a woolly collection of characters that faintly echo the bite of bigger wits...
...Johnny Mathis; Columbia). One of the freshest young practitioners of the crewcut, scrubbed-voice style made popular by Pat Boone, Mathis quavers out his fast-selling ballad and all but soft-sells himself out of the lady's vision: "We may never meet again, but then...