Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Office Building reflects his pride: the photographs of his wife and four sons, the bronze statue of his father which stands on the mantel-old William Howard Taft, long coat swept back, right hand in hip pocket. One large photograph of the ex-President, vital and smiling, waving a hat, rests on the floor, against the fireplace. When people try to hang it on the wall, Bob Taft waves his hand and remonstrates: "No, I like it right there...
...Christian readers, Lewis' allegory adds up to an elaborate modern version of an old story which atomic man may well paste in his hat: The Tower of Babel...
...temperance people by turning down a glass of wine, proffered by amateur waitress Congresswoman Jessie Sumner. (No prohibitionist, Mrs. T. just doesn't like the taste of the stuff.) Occasion: the monthly luncheon of her Spanish teacher's class. Mrs. Truman, who turned up in a hat to remember (see cut), was on a spot: no water was served with the meal, which was so spicily Iberian that Senator Homer Ferguson's wife Myrtle was moved to report: "Now I know where the flamethrowers come from...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
...calls "the yawning disproportion between the ingenuity of the means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope that The Hucksters' venom indicates a growing rebellion against the sins of advertisers. It might be what Evan Evans would call (tossing his hat out of the window, to illustrate) "a straw in the wind...