Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a group of 200 Harvard Business School graduates asked him to address them at Pasadena's high-hat Huntington Hotel last week, Beck (perhaps not knowing they had first failed to get eleven less controversial capitalists, among them Studebaker's Paul Hoffman and Lockheed's Robert Gross) was proud and happy to oblige. "I contend," said Beck, "that we are in a very serious recession. Ten weeks ago, I stated that the auto industry was in a terrible condition. Everybody said I was a prophet of gloom. But about three weeks later the Wall Street Journal...
Among the uniforms that Ike has donated to the collection are his West Point greys and tarbucket hat, the field uniform, including the Eisenhower jacket that he wore in France, and an elaborate red wool cloak that signifies that Ike is a corporal in the crack Algerian Spahis of the French army. From Ethiopia came a rhinoceros-hide shield; from Greece, an ancient (800 B.C.) wine flask; and from the District of Columbia, red, white and blue license plate No. 1. Ike himself brought back a bracelet of boar's tusks from his Philippine tour with Douglas Mac-Arthur...
Like its opposite number in Manhattan, London's Communist Daily Worker regularly passes the hat among faithful party members to keep the paper from going under. Last week, after warning again of the paper's dire financial straits, the Worker's appeal struck a note of unwitting candor: "Our readers are lulling themselves into the belief that there is no danger at all. That is a desperate mistake. The point can and will be reached when the economies we are being forced to effect may result in a much worse paper...
...varied with pure farce. In "The Woman in the Case," a double-bass player and an aristocratic beauty get acquainted after both have gone swimming and have had their clothes stolen. Chekhov's Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise and the inadvertent complicity...
...newcomer, but this fault is no more extreme than in other fields, like psychology, for instance. It seems to me that the CRIMSON writer objects to the fact thate is no sugar-coated way to success in the Fine Arts department; it suddenly demands of the student new skills hat are not grounded in the easy subjectivism of an "interpretive" course. But most important of all, the alleged art-historical esotericism of the middle level courses seems still to have attracted a creditable number of enthusiasts beyond the 25 Harvard concentrators. "Art of the Nineteenth Century" and "Architecture...