Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after the book had been distributed store executives began asking if they could use the material for window displays. TIME'S Merchandising Director, Stuart Powers, and his staff worked five of the TIME readers' coats of arms into displays for men's stores. (You can see them this month in some 200 stores across the U.S.) Cluett-Peabody, makers of Arrow shirts, ties, etc., heard about the displays and asked us for permission to use 15 of the coats of arms as designs for a new line of "heraldic neckwear...
...Army generals who had been suspended from duty since they bobbed up in the Senate's investigation of five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.) got the word from on high last week. Major General Herman Feldman was reprimanded for passing out information on Government purchasing plans, but restored to duty as the Army's Quartermaster General. Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, who had tried to wangle a second term as chief of the Chemical Corps by running down all his potential rivals, was sacked: he went into retirement on a $6,600-a-year pension...
...Paul Robeson and attended by thousands of his Communist-line followers. Both sides were looking for trouble: some of the concertgoers, carefully organized and briefed by their Communist leaders, came equipped with baseball bats; veterans and their sympathizers ambushed departing cars, bombarded them with sticks and heavy stones. Twenty-five buses had every window broken, eight cars were overturned, 145 people were hurt. Westchester County authorities blamed "teen-agers," commended the 904 policemen for preventing "mass killings." But the police, for all their numbers, flopped dismally and some seemed hardly interested in preserving order. One cop, reporting a brush with...
...That's My Baby (Universal-International) is strictly seersucker cinema with one eye on the hot-weather box-office and the other on the football season. Its five gridiron heroes, headed by a gangling quarterback (Donald O'Connor) are ex-G.I. students who are also henpecked husbands and harassed fathers. Their five wives, captained by Gloria De Haven, are all psychology students determined to reduce their husbands to baby burpers and dishwashers. The obvious problem, in due course obviously solved: Who is going to carry the ball for the glory of dear old Granger...
...comedy situations are irrepressibly coy; the songs and dances remorselessly routine. Most pointed comment on the movie's pace: the glazed look of indifference on the faces of the five babies...