Word: irma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the war, lanky (6 ft. 3 in.), witty George Kistiakowsky has sandwiched a series of special defense jobs between his experimental work and teaching duties at Harvard. He lives with his wife, Nebraska-born Irma Shuler, in Lincoln, Mass., likes to ski, takes his Scotch with water. When Lincoln's town fathers refused Explosives Expert Kistiakowsky a permit to dynamite some stumps on his acreage, he flashed the Manhattan Project Medal for Merit citation awarded him by President Truman, got a green light-and blew the stumps skyhigh...
...sculptor: "For a thousand dollars I'll do a head of grandma -guaranteed to look just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome's new expatriates is Detroit-born Zubel Kachadoorian, 35, who formerly worked part time as a construction worker, while his artist wife, Irma Cavat, padded out the budget as a waitress. Now, with a Prix de Rome and a Fulbright between them, they are both fulltime painters. San Francisco-born James Leong, who supports his wife and children on concurrent Guggenheim and Fulbright grants, rediscovered his own Chinese heritage in Rome, now turns...
...them know no more than their customers about the market, depend on a fast spiel and reams of charts to do their selling. Yet a good part-time salesman can make $10,000 or $15,000 a year in commissions, full-time salesmen up to $25,000. Says Miss Irma Bender, a top fund salesman for Cleveland's Joseph, Mellen & Miller: "I tell prospects that investing in funds is as easy as buying...
...Irma and Colette go together like cognac and coffee. Colette, too, ran the streets of Montmartre when she was a child. She worked, with no success, in a succession of sleazy cafes in Casablanca, Oran and Algiers ("I don't like to sing against the sound of popping champagne corks"). After a spell as a secretary (in a music publishing house) and as a band vocalist, she moved, still virtually unknown, into the role of Irma...
Colette has just completed a French folklore album, is eying the movies. But she has not permanently abandoned her friend Irma. This week she begins a tour of France, Switzerland and Belgium, and next fall she will go with the show to England to tell Londoners all about the fille d'amour from Coulaincourt who knows that true love is never up for sale...