Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lifts & Luck. Besides Kramer, Coach Roche adopted just two other tennis protégés before going to Detroit to design new automobile gadgets. One was Ted Schroeder; the other was a youngster named Doug Woodbury, who died in an airplane crash...
...selling her best finds to private collectors, lovingly hides them away in the old Connecticut farmhouse where she spends her summers. "These things are not cute a bit," she says proudly, "and they're not quaint either. They're art. The one quality they all share is design, you see, and that's what contemporary artists emphasize too. Our modern painters have learned a lot from these folk artists...
Died. Roy A. Chadwick, 54, designer of the Lancaster, the R.A.F.'s highly successful World War II heavy bomber; in a take-off crash during a test of the Avro Tudor II, his design for a new long-range British transport; near Woodford, England...
...advertising writers last week joined the fashion revolution begun by couturiers and fashion magazines (TIME, Aug. 18). A year ago Manhattan's Lord & Taylor had lyrically praised suits with "new bulky tops" and short-skirted hip-hugging dresses that had matured into "a faultless anatomy of design." Last week L. & T.'s ads cried: "Remember those shoulders out to-here, those hazardous days of the short tight skirts...
...York Times Book Critic Charles Poore described station wagons: ". . . half-timbered, like Elizabethan houses (what you might call the Stratford-upon-Detroit-River school of automobile design...