Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artists' Group of America picked the country's ten most beautiful women. Among them: Elizabeth Taylor ("Face and grace of an angel"), Ava Gardner ("Temptingly curved bosom and hip lines"), Esther Williams ("Flawlessly formed jaws and thighs"), Ginger Rogers ("Fine bold chin"), Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt ("Shapely ears"), and Mary Pickford ("Everybody's 'favorite aunt' type...
...American hospitality, concluded Oxonian Robinson, "I raise a foaming mug of pink ice-cream in ginger-beer (the national beverage) and pledge my sincere gratitude. But a Bronx cheer for the neons, the nylons, and the nut-melbas-each one of the Twenty-Eight Flavours-and Odo-ro-no, Times Square, the subways, the Empire State, drugstores, candy and campuses ... O Lord...
...rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program, had "recently returned from a trip...
...Corporation (among them: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, '15, Senator Robert A. Taft, '10, Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, '24). Yale was doing what Yale had done only 15 times before in its 249-year history: inaugurating a president. Yale's 16th: slim, ginger-haired Historian Alfred Whitney Griswold, 43, member of Yale's class of '29, faculty member since he won his Ph.D. in 1933, professor of history for twelve years before he was selected last February to succeed retiring President Charles Seymour...
Cavalcade of America (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Ginger Rogers in Emma...