Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know," he said, "Eskimos are so dull they fascinate me. I guess I never told you about my Epic of Nanook bit this summer, did I?" He began stirring his ice briskly and his eyes brightened with a nostalgic glaze. "You know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said...
...names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might say I was God around the hotel. I would be sweeping, you know, and some girls would come over and ask me about Nanook, or the polar bear cavalry, or the ice cities. It was great--but then one of them found out that Eskimos couldn't write...
...Photographer Stan Wayman, on assignment for TIME, set up his camera, trained its long telescopic lens in the direction of four gantry towers two miles away, and waited. The wait turned into a monotonous, week-long vigil. The monotony was relieved by the arrival of his wife with an ice chest and a bottle of champagne. It was the Waymans' seventh anniversary; they celebrated it on the beach...
...During the noon hour a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked: "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh, I'd love to." And another Negro pupil recalled: "The white kids broke the ice. They talked to us." Clearly, many of the white children of Central High School were proving themselves better citizens than their elders...
...rival show, The Big Surprise. Snapped Martin: "Norman is just a mere infant, that's all. He should shut up." Whatever the truth, Charlie Revson and Norman did not get along. "Revson has good ad sense," says Norman, "but he has to be forced. The Fire and Ice promotion was put over his dead body, even though it was the best ad he ever...