Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Red delegation, led by North Korea's dapper and durable Nam Il, and the U.N. delegation, led by Lieut. General William K. Harrison, sat down in the conference hut at Panmunjom, the atmosphere was cold, correct and businesslike. There were no smiles, no nods, no handshakes. There had been prior agreement that prisoners willing to go home should be repatriated after a ceasefire, that others should be placed in custody of a neutral nation pending final disposition. Beyond that, there was no progress...
...dapper young men stepped off a MATS plane in Paris last week and set forth on a whirlwind inspection tour. They were Roy Cohn, Senator Joe McCarthy's No. 1 investigator, and Gerard David...
...winner, at an average speed of 86.4 m.p.h.: dapper, greying Jim Kimberly (in red gloves and shoes), who had made an entrance into Austin that was spectacular even by Texas standards. Included in the Kimberly entourage: a trailer loaded down with two Ferraris, a machine-shop truck, a station-wagon car complete with bar, and two expert mechanics. The whole outfit was decked out in Kimberly's favorite fire-engine...
Fireballs & Astrophysics. The gift of Charles Hayden, a dapper Boston-born banker (Hayden, Stone & Co.) who made millions speculating in copper, the versatile robot was built at the Zeiss Works in Jena, Germany at a cost of $110,000. When it made its debut, it was the fourth such instrument installed in a U.S. planetarium. There are now six Zeiss planetaria spotted across the country...
...location was the Barbary Coast, Technicolored to perfection in the midwinter sunshine; the set was a makeshift courtroom in the ancient Moorish palace that houses the U.S. consulate in torrid Tangier. On trial was Tangier's No. 1 manufacturer of nylons and lingerie: dapper Sidney Paley, 32, a spunky ex-G.I. from New Jersey known to his intimates as Nylon Sid. The charge: plotting piracy on the high seas...