Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beauty parlors as jammed as airraid shelters under attack, discussion groups, dancing classes. And everywhere, from swimming pool to dining room, there is the lavish style show that the guests put on themselves. The dawn-to-dawn display of jewels and furs has been known to disconcert even the G's well-trained staff. Last week a waiter greeted a middle-aged lady by asking: "If you wear mink at breakfast, how can you top it the rest of the day?" The woman coolly taught him one of the newer ploys of ostentation: "I save my stone martens...
...still the opportunity it provides for generating togetherness. At Grossinger's, Hostess Karla Grossinger serves as matchmaker-psychologist, introduces couples with practiced skill. The weekly hotel newspaper (delivered to more than 100.-ooo alumni) proudly reports all marriages that can be traced back to a romance at the G. At the Concord, just inside the mammoth dining room, a wooden pegboard records who is sitting where-pink pegs for women, blue for men. Lighter and darker shades indicate relative ages. Thus the maitre d'hotel is also able to serve as an efficient matchmaker...
Manhattan's abstract expressionists have a new forum in the shape of a magazine with a softly assertive title: It Is Editor and Publisher: Philip G. Pavia, a Greenwich Village sculptor blessed with a private income, who loads his $2 magazine with full-page reproductions, offers ample space to the artists to explain, defend and expand on their own efforts. After three issues and yards of prose. It Is seems to have proved that the painters are at least as confused about their work as the public is. Sample quotes...
...Philip G. Pavia himself waves the new banner of forgetfulness, or "non-history": "Associating present sensations with past experience is normal and even necessary in everyday living, but such associations are poisonous in creating art. When the process of association fills the initial intuition with the pastness of dead data-stuff the impact of this intuition is reduced to that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists...
From nearly all sectors of industry, earnings were rising in what appeared to be the biggest quarterly gain over the comparable quarter a year before since the end of World War II. General Motors' Chairman Frederic G. Donner reported that corporate sales of $3.3 billion in the second quarter were the second best in history for that period (best: igss's $3.4 billion). G.M.'s first-half earnings climbed to $2.08 per share, v. $1.17 in the same period last year. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed how well it had stepped up efficiency under President Mark W. Cresap...