Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mink-covered items referred to in your Jan. 13 issue, a mink duster for dusting Cadillacs is really practical. Incidentally, pastel and white mink have for years given an assist to Casper's greenhouses and choicer gardens, so Manhattan's Ferti-Mink [a fertilizer for penthouse plants] isn't so extraordinary...
...Sphahn of the Milwaukee Braves is another one to talk, isn't he? There's a guy who's pitched only about two innings in two years against us. He wouldn't know Gil Hodges or Roy Campenella if he met them on the street...
...Flanders: "Oh, I'll be back in 15 seconds, just 15 seconds." (Thinking the subcommittee session was going to be secret, he had shooed a visiting WAVE out of the room and was going to fetch her back.) "But you can't leave us," said Johnson. "This isn't going to take 15 seconds." It took little more than that: the announcement was moments out of Medaris' mouth when Lyndon Johnson rushed him out into the hall to appear before television...
...sheets and pillowcases we had, not to mention towels." Studio One's commercials were so colossal ("We used every single bit of the whole studio," said Betty) that they had to be taped in advance so there would be room to do the rest of the show live. "Isn't that funny," exclaimed Betty, "after they move us out here because the facilities are so much better?" Unfortunately, Betty's commercials kept being interrupted by long stretches of something called Brotherhood of the Bell, a pretentious melodrama about a conspiratorial fraternity in 1976, which posed a question...
...last week, after a night of tossing and turning, California Industrialist Arthur Hanisch, 63, gave up his vain effort to sleep. "You'd better go back to bed, Arthur," said his wife, "Santa Claus isn't here yet." Hanisch was, indeed, like a boy waiting to see a new toy. Twenty-nine months ago he set out to build a dream palace for his small (140 employees), 17-year-old pharmaceutical business, the Stuart Co. He hired Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone after seeing a picture of Stone's highly praised design for the New Delhi embassy...