Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the invitation was first considered last month in an executive board meeting it set off what Richard A. Levin '54 termed "one hell of a fight." Much of the controversy centered on a letter the Council recently received from a former member of the group who had run into trouble in getting his Air Force commission because of his participation in a previous debate with...
Dress Designer Elizabeth Hawes once Held that feminine fashion is spinach and said to hell with it. Gimbels' Manhattan department store holds that the crop has since changed. Until recently, it said in its ads, fashion was an onion; now it is a carrot. "Women have variously looked like hour-glasses, test-tubes, snakes, string-beans, pincushions, fiddles, pyramids and in one supreme burst of misguided effort, men. But lately things have been pretty undrastic. Until now, that is. Now the fashion silhouette has been stood on its head. The little-top-and-full skirt (or onion look...
Like his father, however, he handles words well and has produced a magnificent if frightening volume. Through his keen senses, the armchair adventurer is plunged into a world that out-wonders Wonderland. To many his paradise may seem to be somewhat south of Dante's ninth level of hell and his philosophy may grate. But they will be amazed and relieved to go back to the headlines and petty disturbances of man, to wait in the quiet bliss bombs and bars until A.C.D. returns to tell of his next foray. If he bothers to return...
With the federal government spending one fourth of the entire national income, almost anyone with money holds some "involved" stocks, he pointed out. "And the country needs a hell of a lot of good men," he added...
...sojourn in Persia, I am convinced that Persia is now entering a period of chaos and anarchy . . . From the times of Darius and Cyrus, Persia has known only peace through a strong man ... To prate of democracy to the Persians is like advocating prohibition to the denizens of hell." Childs believes that "the money we are pouring into Persia is money thrown down a drain," and that the U.S. faces "the alternative of seeing Russia take over the whole of Persia or, if we are sufficiently farsighted, only the northern half." His urgent recommendation: "The U.S. should be prepared...