Word: down-at-the-heel
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...rail to announce: "I'm Herr Glocken, and this is a ship of fools." Wading through heavy condensations of Miss Porter's prose, his fellow travelers check in to introduce themselves: the troubled and tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish salesman (Germany's Heinz Ruehmann) who can believe no evil of a nation that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. Muses the worldly-wise ship's doctor (Germany's Oskar...
...revolution has vastly sped bowling's rise from the old alleys in seedy, down-at-the-heel side streets, among pool halls and beer parlors. It has long since nudged into bright new homes, often near the best suburbs. Modern "family bowling centers'" are embellished with cafés, drugstores, beauty parlors, nurseries for the children. As a final embellishment of respectability the Bowling Congress last week was urging all fans to join in a quiet campaign to replace the "alley" and its back-door connotation, with the more genteel word "lane...
Things Are Nothing. Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago. "I like this neighborhood." he says. "I can think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about...
...down-at-the-heel West Cincinnati, the members of the West Cincinnati Presbyterian Church and St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, faced with similar problems, united in 1945. Now, with a combined membership of 200, they meet in the West Cincinnati church (now called St. Barnabas') with a Presbyterian, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin, as minister. The church is also interracial; about a fifth of its members are Negroes...
...newest flare-up began last month when the well-meaning Army decided to set up separate redistribution centers in Harlem and Chicago's down-at-the-heel South Side for Negro troops of the Army Ground Forces (TIME, Oct. 2). Although they are in overcrowded sections and only equipped to the lower-drummer-trade standard, the Hotels Pershing and Theresa, the Army wishfully reasoned, would still be more restful to battle-weary Negroes than any of the 49 fancy hotels taken over for whites in resort centers like Miami, Santa Barbara, Lake Placid...