Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shop as Henri de Chatillon, hatmaker, in the Reforma mansion that had once housed Emperor Maximilian's mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores...
Born. To Benson Ford, 30, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., head of the Lincoln-Mercury Division, and Edith Mc-Naughton Ford, 29, daughter of a onetime Cadillac Motor Car official: their first child, a son; in Detroit. Name: Benson Jr. Weight...
...Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later to head a syndicate which bought the St. Louis Cardinals. He sold his interest last January for a reported...
...elder Dukinfield took a dark view of his son's ambition, and once he went as far as to tan him for bruising a lemon. Incensed beyond containment, William climbed aloft in the stable one day and dropped a large box on his father's head. Then he left home, never to return...
Toombs is an ex-newsman whose wife took ill and left him to care for their three children. If there is a word of truth in Raising a Riot, Toombs ran about like a chicken with its head off for 18 months-a spectacle that may weary some readers after 18 pages-and finished every day feeling like "an egg dropped on concrete...