Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China, the most important U.S. ally in the world outside Western Europe, was gone. This chilling calamity was ponderously proclaimed last week in unusual fashion-by a 1,054-page State Department white paper, weighing three pounds and selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...
Behind the facades of the great houses of fashion, meanwhile, there was much feverish activity. Mannequins, salesgirls and designers were rushed to the sewing tables to get the dresses ready in time. Curly-haired Jacques Fath, stripped to the waist, sat in a room stacked with designs and lengths of expensive material. "The girls are the first to suffer if they stay away," said he. "They'll be back...
Last week proud old Kentucky found a great big tack in its bourbon barrel. Its state officials swarmed angrily on Washington, where the Bureau of Internal Revenue was deciding a momentous question: Is whisky stored in used casks just as good as whisky stored, Kentucky-fashion, in new charred white oak casks? Up rose Guy C. Shearer, administrator of Kentucky's liquor board. "Kentucky," cried he, "is a bourbon state . . . steeped in the knowledge and in the tradition of the production of whisky, both legal . . . and illegal." The Treasury, hinted Shearer, had better not tell Kentucky how whisky should...
...flamboyant fashion, Chicago had given a lusty preview of the national anti-VD campaign which opened last week in more than 300 cities in 28 states. The U.S. Public Health Service, helping to plan and synchronize the local efforts, had arranged with the Communication Materials Center of New York's Columbia University Press to provide posters, car cards, window displays, pamphlets and match books...
Thus last week, in typical fashion, the U.S. welcomed one of the most extraordinary men of modern times. Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, theologian, organist, interpreter of Bach's music, and one of the world's great humanitarians, has a life of achievement behind him which few contemporary men can equal. Throughout the civilized world he is also quietly honored as few are honored in their lifetime-for what...