Word: fits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jaeckel, Inc. to its string. In taking control of Gunther-Jaeckel, Hoving got more of the kind of elegant tradition he likes, also a challenge to his merchandising skill (Gunther-Jaeckel last paid a dividend in 1945). But fellow merchants figured he would soon figure out a way to fit Gunther-Jaeckel into his spreading operation. Pursuing a policy of aggressive expansion, his Bonwit Teller already has two suburban branches operating in Manhasset, L.I. and White Plains, N.Y., a third projected (in Millburn, N.J.), plus stores in Chicago, Cleveland and Boston. For the present, Hoving will double up on some...
...play Othello at Stratford on Avon, booming Negro Baritone Paul Robeson bared for waiting cameras a scrubbier jowl than usual. Reason: he was nurturing his own beard, since "last time I played Othello I used a false beard, but it kept slipping with perspiration." Fellow-traveling Traveler Robeson seemed fit after a spell with the flu in a Moscow hospital, for which he had predictable praise...
...unparalleled passion and beauty. Last week, a vigorous 65, Andrés Segovia was celebrating his 50th season of concertizing. In Manhattan's Town Hall he demonstrated again the magic that he brings to the guitar, an instrument that, before Segovia's coming, was thought to be fit mostly for gypsies. "Segovia's guitar does not sound loud," Stravinsky once said, "but it sounds...
Thompson had assumed that football was a subject fit for kidding at Brown, which was an eager signer of the Ivy League de-emphasis pact of 1954, has since played the game so honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy...
...honor and a system of permissions. The spirit is an ideal of conduct which has characterized the College for many years, producing a special sort of maturity in the Radcliffe student and preparing her to live under the present system of a few reasonable, concise rules, always flexible to fit the individual situation...