Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Junior Village-an overcrowded institution for children of divided or unsuitable homes, she was touchingly welcomed by 500 waifs. As Jackie entered the dining room in her bright red wool suit and mink hat-the same outfit she wore last year to Buckingham Palace-some cried, "Mommy." One child called out: "Didn't you bring us anything...
...read: ASK THE MANAGER ABOUT OTHER CHOICE COMMUNIST GOODS FOR SALE IN THIS STORE, OR BUY ALL YOUR COMMUNIST GOODS AT THIS STORE. Very often, this "card party" tactic has its desired effect: the store removes the tainted merchandise -Polish hams, Czechoslovakian glass, Yugoslavian coat hangers, Hungarian handbags, Bulgarian hat racks, East German watches -that had been imported from Iron Curtain countries...
...Packers played their home games at Hagemcister Park, an open field that belonged to the Hagemeister brewery. The ''park" had no fences, no turnstiles, no seats. Fans wandered in and out at will, and a sportswriter named George Calhoun walked up and down the sidelines passing his hat. At the end of their first season, the Packers divvied up the spoils. pocketed $16.75 Per man-Even after the city built a stadium and fans filled every seat, the costs had a way of outrunning the receipts. Other pro teams popped up in such backwater towns as Rock Island...
...Walters has the sense to let all this seem exactly what it is: nonsense. He skillfully mingles cinemagic and circus-pocus, and he almost always gets the best out of his players-including Jumbo, portrayed with massive aplomb by an animal named Sydney, who wears a size 92 top hat and, in profile, looks rather like Durante. Day as usual is blindingly sunny, but in a circus the glare seems suitable. Boyd, for once, talks without sounding as if he were a species of Boyd that chews worms. And Martha Raye is hilarious as an unfortunate fortuneteller who sometimes plays...
...cover story, Adlai Stevenson is a fascinating and familiar subject. "I remember him first during the 1952 campaign, when he abandoned it to deal with a prison riot back in Illinois. From a hilltop I could see him, a somewhat incongruous figure in a brown Brooks Brothers hat and a Chesterfield coat, walk into the prison courtyard and calmly sway a frenzied mob into returning to their cells with a warning that he would order the guards to fire once at the ceiling and then to fire directly at the rioters. The fusillade aimed at the ceiling was enough...