Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a six-week visit to the U.S., including a look at Texas, French Fashion Creator Jacques Path sailed for home. He opined that U.S. women have "a grand sense of elegance," but sometimes overdress. This, he added quickly, does not apply to Texas women, who not only dress simply but are also beautiful...
...more needed to be added. Said he: "the place of women in the present scheme of things is confused and unstable . . . We must constantly bear in mind, however, that the great majority of women who attend college will marry and have children, and that for most of them their home will be the focus of their lives." Neither women students nor their colleges could ignore the warnings "that the American home is not so satisfactory a place ... as it should...
Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course "where the cops can't hear you yell," forced to drink a mixture of a searing hot sauce compounded with pepper and garlic and ordered to smoke a handful of cigars, inhaling every puff. After he vomited, the "hackers" went to work, whacked him 50 times with an inch...
...grey day at Jamaica last week, Jockey Gordon Glisson booted home his 249th winner of the year. No other U.S. jockey was close to him in the race to ride the most winners of 1949.* Half an hour later, while Glisson was trying for No. 250, he got in a jam on the far turn and his mount stumbled. He was pitched out of the saddle and lay still in the dirt until the ambulance arrived...
...Curley, the boss of the juvenile jazzbos, puts it, "We were pretty rough at first-everybody fighting for their own salad." Now, when they play together, they like to "get casual." Don Ingle does some of the arranging. Sample: their Show Me the Way to Go Home consists of 17 bars of written music, followed by the words "sing chorus" scrawled across the middle of the score sheet; at the end it demands a "jam out." They don't worry about programing. Says Ingle: "We play half what the audience wants, which is Dixieland, and the other half what...