Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saks Fifth Avenue display windows featured a new fabric shade-"good grey...
...London. Now, though he keeps his flat in London, he prefers to wander from city to city, "an immensely free citizen of the world," painting as the dawn breaks around him, or on-stormy nights when the lightning plays. Last week, two of his latest works were on display in a Manhattan gallery. They were portraits, one of a bemused art collector, the other of a wistful clown, standing against a gaudy carnival background, gazing over the head of an absurd little dog. Although the bright slashes of color were still there, some of the old violence seemed gone...
Ever since 1944, when a former Baptist minister named Tommy C. Douglas led the CCF in a rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
...Center's carnivals rank, of course, with the most dolled-up and weighted-down, the most eye-filling and eye-closing production numbers in show business; and they can make ice skating seem the most lethargic of all sports. This year, however, they display a certain mild improvement. The big patriotic number really cracks the whip as well as waves the flag; and one or two of the more lavish spectacles show a definite advance from the artistic level of the candy box to that of the Christmas card...
...decided that the best way to keep volume high was to add to his products. For $5 ½ million, he picked up the Harriet Hubbard Ayer line of cosmetics (TIME, July 21), spent another million renovating its factory and hiring Raymond Loewy Associates to dress up its packaging and display. For $1.2 million, Luckman added a lower-priced cosmetic line (Luxor) to be sold through drugstores...