Word: customers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often overlooked by Northern Crusaders who want to ride off on a charger--whether black or white--and blaze a trail for The Cause of Integration. And this is that the North, too, has its racial problem. True, it is somewhat hidden behind residential segregation or unwritten custom, but it is just as real, and just as wrong. The problem becomes more apparent when one takes a look at the statistics of the very few Northern Negroes who are adequately prepared for college or who have annual incomes over $5000. Once accepted as a national instead of a sectional problem...
...grey silk suit trimmed with gold-shot cuffs and lapels ("It cost $400"), Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 36, sailed for a six-week concert tour of Europe with 34 pieces of luggage including 60 complete changes of costume plus a custom-made $15,000 glass-topped piano. Meanwhile, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, unregenerate enemy of "momism" and of Liberace as "mom's darling boy," muttered darkly that Liberace is "a superannuated Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he came to Miami, I was going to round up every guy with any masculinity, and we were going to stone that...
First of all, he pointed out that the Dickeys had gleefully left their mark for twenty years, and that even the president of Harvard could not alter the cake of custom...
...lives about eight blocks away, the two Nixon girls and the two youngest Kefauver girls go to the same public school, Nancy Kefauver and Pat Nixon shop in the same neighborhood stores, belong to the same P.T.A. chapter.) Kefauver also went to Farnsworth-Reed Ltd., an exclusive 17th Street custom shop, bought a blue suit and a grey suit, discovered that his campaign exertions had reduced his waistline from 41 to 39 in. and his collar size from...
Acting on his own, without President Roosevelt's knowledge. George Marshall established a custom that is now an accepted practice in presidential years, though never since has the briefing of the rival candidate been so important. In peacetime 1948, the recipient was again Tom Dewey. In 1952, both Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were briefed regularly. In the case of Eisenhower, who had resigned as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, the previous June to campaign for the presidency, the material was of slight value. Explained Ike last week: "I was in the middle of the military organization that had access...