Word: haystacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...
...made up his mind to "reorient" himself "and start all over again." He quit his designing job, joined a cooperative farm colony in Suffolk, England, and spent a year on the soil. When he got back to Belfast he found he had left his surrealist props under a haystack, along with the prissily smooth painting methods of his past...
...fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke it was dark and rainy, the ditch was filled with bodies. Abraham lay still. Later he crawled on hands and knees and found four other men who had survived. The men hid in a haystack and, in the morning, cautiously made their way to the nearest village...
Needles in a Haystack. Last week, sitting in his Princeton, N.J. office, Dr. George Horace Gallup riffled contentedly through the answers. A big, friendly, teddybear of a man with a passion for facts & figures, Pollster Gallup has been finding needles in the U.S. haystack for the past twelve years. Other pollsters, like Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley, have been doing it just as long. But George Gallup's four-a-week releases to 126 U.S. newspapers have made the "Gallup Poll" a household word and Gallup the Babe Ruth of the polling profession...
TIME'S attempts to help the reader "see" the people who make the news has rarely, if ever, approached Carlyle's famous characterization of Robespierre, the "seagreen incorruptible." Gone are the days when TIME'S pages were exclusively inhabited by a jut-jawed, bucktoothed, moose-tall, haystack-haired race. "TIME style" served a purpose; it used a showman's trick to call attention to the fact that TIME had a style of editing and thinking, that TIME was not a jumble of "eye-terns," but an integrated report...