Word: hourglass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elitenik neighbors with a bottle of Mouton-Rothschild 1937. One of the best stories in the book, Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?, might draw a bravo from Marquand for its social surgery. At college, blueblooded Fred had got socially iffy Clayton into the best clubs. Years later, with the hourglass of fortune reversed, Fred needs work and Clayton is an advertising bigwig. At a sanctimonious lunch full of bogus bonhomie, Clayton offers Fred no job. and all but admits that one of his greatest pleasures is watching the mighty campus idols of old crash at his well-shod feet...
...ironic token of the complete reversal of the social hourglass, he lives with the daughter of his former porter. He is mocked and ridiculed. A kind of Suffering Servant, he does odd chores for his neighbors. One morning, in a Moscow trolley, he feels suffocated, tugs vainly at the window for a breath of air and dies short minutes later of a heart attack-buried alive, as the first-page parable foretold, for lack of the vital air of freedom...
Died. Irene Langhorne Gibson, 83, the "Original Gibson Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...
...self-doubts for the jaunty little man from Independence, Mo. "The presidency of the U.S. carries with it a responsibility so personal as to be without parallel." writes Harry Truman. "To be President of the U.S. is to be lonely, very lonely at times of great decisions." In the hourglass of history, Harry Truman's capacity for his high office and his stature as President may well be measured from those moments of great loneliness. For whatever else he did, the climactic decisions-to proceed with the United Nations, to drop the Abomb, to go to war in Korea...
...evening appearances of youngish (50) Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich at a plush London nightclub, the resourceful management hit on the idea of dragging in a celebrity at each show to introduce Grandma Marlene. Last week's hit curtain-raiser was Liverpool's burly (208 Ibs.), two-hourglass-figured (50 in., 40 in., 50 in.) Labor M.P Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9), honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced inside to utter...