Word: emporium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested...
...LITTLE HORSE BUS, by Graham Greene (Lothrop; $2), carries its author far from his tortuous bypaths of sin and salvation. This is a sunny-spirited little brief for the old corner "grocer's shop" v. the Cellophane-wrapped modernity of a "Hygienic Emporium." A rickety but gallant old horse bus wins the day for tradition in a cops-and-robbers chase, while Illustrator Dorothy Craigie splashes each page with eye-catching color...
...After the statistics hit Page One across the nation last week, common stocks of the big five cigarette manufacturers dropped as much as 4 points, preferred stocks even more, and buyers invaded pipe shops to buy experimental briars and fancy smoking mixtures. In Manhattan, Dunhill's expensive smoking emporium on Fifth Avenue reported that its stock of slim little ladies' pipes, enough to last several months at the old sales rate, was cleaned out in a couple of days...
...inception, the association had been strictly a men's organization, but many women also admired Roosevelt. Their interest resulted in the formation of a Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association dedicated to restoring the old Roosevelt home in New York. Despite setbacks--such as the presence of a cleaning emporium on the site of the old home and a continual shortage of money--the women, with $150,000 in aid from the men completed the shrine in 1922. The house itself is a replica of the old one, constructed, with the advice of Roosevelt's younger sister Corinne, complete down...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, rising to the bait of $7,500, warmed up for a week's work at Chicago's Chez Paree, her debut in any such emporium of liquor and lowbrow music. "There will be no Wagner," she promised. "This will be nothing but fun . . ." Her big number: a take-off on Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson mangling that sweet old song Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey...