Word: generally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, there was a new look: the neatnik had replaced the beatnik. Out were dungarees, sloppy slacks, baggy sweaters, etc. Reflecting the back-to-school buying surge, department-store sales across the nation rose 20% over a year ago. Said Teen-Age Research Expert Eugene Gilbert: "There is a general upturn in the appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their best sales to teen-age girls came in conservative, mannish-looking apparel: vests, West Point-styled...
Died. Frank Comerford Walker, 73, portly, tight-lipped movie-house owner and the third of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four Catholic national chairmen (1943-44), who began his political career by donating $10,000 to F.D.R.'s 1928 gubernatorial campaign, as a watchful Postmaster General (1940-45) tried to revoke Esquire Magazine's second-class mailing privileges because of its spicy contents; in Manhattan...
...sort of See Here, Private Mineo, is a comedy about modern G.I.s-sons of the soldiers of World War II. The theme song announces that It's the Same Old Army, and the jokes, at least, are scarred veterans (Sergeant: "Suppose he doesn't recover consciousness, sir?" General: "He has to. It's an order."). Also familiar is the debatable thesis that there are no snobs in foxholes, or even in barracks on the first day of basic training. Immediate buddyhood is established among Sal Mineo, a jivey cat from Manhattan's Lower East Side; Barry...
...might be said with some justice that the true effects of Harvard will be observed only after ten or twenty years. But present Catholic tallies can be compared with over-all totals for the University to arrive at some interesting observations. In general, there seemed to be nothing which distinguished Catholics from the rest of the College in the political sphere. Family income actually exerted a greater influence in determining a party preference and position on various issues...
...Communists being allowed to teach in colleges (6-3) and socialists being permitted to teach citizenship courses in public high schools (7-2) than were the more orthodox Catholics (who voted 9-5 for prohibiting Communists and only 9-5 for allowing socialists to teach). The College in general voted 3-1 against prohibiting Communists and 2-1 against prohibiting socialists...