Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S interest, and rightly so -this was the first cover story on a model TIME has ever done. But when the pretty girls trooped through the editorial halls, they found that TIME'S interest was high. Said Purtell: "I never had so many writers offer to help on a story...
Writer Henry Grunwald also spent many hours with Lisa. Once, when Lisa was having trouble putting on a jacket in a studio, Grunwald gallantly leaped to help her. The photographer, accustomed to letting models shift for themselves, said somewhat scornfully: "I can see you're new to this business." After two weeks' work on the story, Grunwald was an old hand, and so impressed by the smooth way in which Lisa worked with Photographer Penn that he decided to make it the lead of his story...
Only in housing were the planners not moving as fast as some people thought they should. The federal housing bill would help, but estimates were that 60,000 Pittsburghers needed low-rent housing. The best Pittsburgh could hope for was adequate housing by 1970. R. K. Mellon, Davy Lawrence and the others maintained that first things came first. Industrial Pittsburgh had to be rescued first; that was the foundation of the whole town's economy...
...driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help to Germany, expressed the hope that Germany would soon get greater autonomy...
...American League, the New York Yankees felt more & more like the defenders of Thermopylae. After leading the league all season with the help of pitching, a lot of team courage and the wiles of Manager Casey Stengel, they were looking like warriors who were about to drop their blunted swords. They blew a seven-run lead to the inept Chicago White Sox to lose, 10-9, threw away another game to the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight...