Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each morning, in his Los Angeles penthouse, a dapper real-estate man named Alexander Wolanow carefully runs an electric razor over his chin, cheeks and jowls. Then, with smooth, swift motions, he keeps right on mowing back over his entire skull. The reason, says "Sacha" Wolanow, is that "I like to be different...
Last week dapper, handsome young (36) Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin, He Who Is Made Lord of all Brunei, announced a five-year plan to make Brunei Asia's first welfare state. Prepared to spend the equivalent of $650 on each of his 50,000 subjects, the Sultan included in his program free medical services, the building of 30 new schools and new hospitals, an airport, a hotel, sanitation and power plants. There would be social security for widows, orphans, lepers, the blind and the aged. Promising youngsters would be sent abroad on scholarships...
...flag was hoisted to the mast of a spick & span ocean liner, the 15,000-ton Gumhuriyat Misr ("Republic of Egypt"). There to welcome the British-built vessel, along with her sister ship Mecca, to the Egyptian merchant fleet was President Mohammed Naguib. Gesturing to a dark and dapper man in a checked tropical worsted suit and red tarboosh, Naguib paid Egypt's thanks to Ahmed Abboud, "that great and capable man who has rendered so many services to his country in the economic field...
Harry Truman, dapper in a new grey suit and two-tone sport shoes, marched at the head of the Independence, Mo., Memorial Day parade and paid a tribute to the men who "have given their lives to make it possible for the Republic to exist." He confirmed reports that he is considering a trip to Washington late this month. He did not expect to drop in for a chat with President Eisenhower, Truman said. "I'm not planning to see anybody I don't want...
...Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus, but a new U.S. of Europe. "What we are doing with our own hands here at home in Europe is the greatest revolution of our history," said Jean Monnet last week. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning...