Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Aug. 26 story on Confidential and Hollywood: please be more careful in future about associations. It isn't that those of us in publicity object so much to your flat statement, "Tips for stories were handed the Meades . . . by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and pressagents . . ." It's just that our wives are asking, if we are in this classification, how come our take home pay is so little...
...Style means good taste. One example of common bad taste is making a double bed too feminine. A bed isn't only a place for voluptuousness. It is a place where you want to sleep soundly, heavily, in contrast with delicacy. It is the place where at times you will be sick, when you want comfort, not refinement. It is the place where you will want to die. when you want majesty, not daintiness. What woman worthy of the name wants to see her man sleep in lace...
...Development Corp. to encourage small businessmen, pumped hard for better schools, wrote three books, was a founder of the American Arbitration Association and served the Government in setting up state job-insurance programs. "I like to tell people that just making money out of a city and its inhabitants isn't the only thing to do." The inroads of age began to tell on Lincoln Filene two years ago. He no longer minded the store. But only when he could no longer recall the crowded days of a life nearly a century long did he retire, and then last...
...outspoken atheist. Says he: "What is needed in a house of prayer is harmonious proportion and serene atmosphere. Whether an architect succeeds in creating these is a measure of the architect's professional capabilities, and not of his religious beliefs. After all, there isn't much difference in atmosphere between St. Mark's in Venice and a synagogue...
...assert himself around his office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change your life, Humph, you can show them all that a civil servant isn't necessarily a deadhead...