Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry has one great advantage: it can display its wares in the world's best showcase-Hollywood-and it cashes in notably through Adrian (he eschews his first name: Gilbert), who last year was named No. 1 U.S. stylist by New York fashion critics. In his Ionic-columned salon in Beverly Hills, Adrian turns out $2 million worth of clothes a year. Yet he and the few other top-ranking stylists (e.g. Howard Greer, Orry-Kelly), gross only 5% of the industry's total...
...People. After the defeat of Germany, Tito, the proletarian proconsul, completely supplanted the pseudodemocrat. On the numerous new holidays he decreed, peasants in rich, fertile Croatia, villagers in hot, dry Dalmatia or highlanders in the barren Karst Mountains assembled in the public squares (under rigorous orders to display "sincere devotion") and chanted: "Tito belongs to us, we belong to Tito...
Even transportation is a problem. Japanese cannot ride in Army vehicles without written authorization. A G.I. can still take his Japanese date walking (in non-military zones), to his unit club (on special occasions) or to approved Japanese dance halls. Any public display of affection may subject a G.I. to arrest. He is forbidden to offer a Japanese girl a U.S. cigaret, chewing gum or chocolate...
...anybody's count, a lot of people. For five hours they lined both sides of the river, watched as the Army, Navy and Coast Guard put on a stunt series, heard the Port of Boston band (also working gratis) make music. The windup was a fireworks display, which the Herald bought at half price. Hits of the show: the Army's jet-propelled Shooting Star, a Coast Guard breeches-buoy rescue of an Old Howard burlesque dancer, Lotus DuBois. During the excitement 29 people were pushed into the Charles...
...which is more a national than a local paper, the Herald is probably the best of a lot of indifferent, purely local Boston sheets. Its competition: the reactionary Post, the sometimes timidly liberal morning and evening Globe, its own editorially neutral evening Traveler (all of which run front-page display ads) and two Hearst tabs...