Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly a decade ago a New Yorker cartoon by Carl Rose showed a mother urging broccoli on an emancipated child whose response became immortal: "I say it's spinach-and I say to hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives...
...Office of America (forerunner of RKO) who sold out his Hollywood interests several years ago, purchased a 200-acre estate in Westport, where he built the Longshore Country Club. Sociable, civic-minded Powers spends his winters in a marble-floored palace at Spuyten Duyvil on the Hudson River, wears green suits and still sports an Irish accent. Last week he promised Westporters a great gift: he would build a $100,000 "marine stadium" at Westport, lease it to the Friends of Music for $1 a year...
...Francisco last week Dr. Martin Icove Green, 39, surgeon of a busy eye hospital, wishing to emulate the Russian example, asked-with considerable circumspection-for authority to take corneas from the eyes of the dead. Hitherto in the U. S. such corneal transplants have come from living eyes (removed because of tumors, etc.) and coreas for transplanting have usually been available only when a patient whose eye was removed goodheartedly offered it to another sufferer...
...great stumbling block to Dr. Green's plan is that corneas deteriorate if not used within 24 hours of death. The corpses used in medical schools would provide a good source of fresh corneas except that California's curator of corpses, Dr. Guy Stillman Millberry (longtime dean of the University of California College of Dentistry), disposes of no unclaimed body for at least a day-when its corneas are no longer fit for transplanting...
...girl sighed softly, a sound like zephyrs caressing rich green leave in a treetop...