Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Power got to Italy last summer to play the leading part in 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes, his appearance in Rome's fashionable, tree-lined Via Veneto had drawn swarms of gasping, pop-eyed Roman girls. His presence also drew some of the Roman aristocracy, anxious to get what it could from free-spending 20th Century-Fox. Before he knew it, handsome Tyrone found himself living in a house turned over to him by gregarious Countess Dorothy di Frasso, née Dorothy Taylor, of Manhattan, Hollywood and Mexico. Reported rental...
Landscapes in G. Initial letters swelled to full-page size and came to enclose miniature paintings sometimes as detailed as murals. Within one huge blue and rose G, an artist had drawn St. Francis kneeling to receive the stigmata (see cut). Gradually the illustrations were separated from the text, and sometimes they almost supplanted it-so that bumpkin barons and illiterate lords could "read" their books like comic strips. They had no trouble identifying each character; the beasts were beastly, the saints saintly, and the maidens maidenly...
With low-hanging stratus (i.e., solid layer) clouds, Project Cirrus was just as successful. Langmuir told how the planes had drawn Greek letters and "racetrack" patterns in stratus clouds by dropping small amounts of dry ice (see cut). Sometimes the cloud was dissipated so completely that blue sky showed through the gaps. Langmuir believes that dry ice can be used to clear clouds from over airports...
Actually there seemed to be no solid answers to any of these questions. Truman hadn't drawn up any detailed blueprints for his "bold new program," or estimated the costs. Explained a White House adviser "The President was merely convinced that the idea was sound, just as President Roosevelt, before detailed plans were prepared, was convinced that we could produce 50,000 tanks and 60 million jobs." In other words, it was more than a feeler, but not yet a program...
...first big postwar coming-out party, the debut of the 1949 Chevrolet and Pontiac, General Motors Corp. had spent a million dollars. The world's biggest automaker had bundled threescore U.S. automotive editors (and plenty of potables) aboard its Astra Domed, diesel-drawn "Train of Tomorrow," for a free ride from Detroit to New York. It would pick up the tab for a three-day whirl of luncheons, receptions and banquets for 5,000 people. All over the U.S., G.M. dealers were also cutting capers; Omaha Chevrolet dealers sent a flagpole sitter aloft for nine days...