Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the works of the city's modern glassmakers. There were dark-colored pitchers with sweeping curves, smoky white vases, clear bottles studded with agate eyes, pieces of rough green glass blown and shaped into portrait heads, vases with interwoven filigrees, bowls that looked as fragile as a lace handkerchief. Some were done in delicate light glass; others were heavy and solidly streamlined, their soft colors worked smoothly into the glass...
...royal family in the wedding picture," added another, "except, of course, the Princess Royal, and she had to be-being the groom's mother." "Margaret didn't even bother to wear a new dress," sniffed a third, pointing out (correctly) that the Princess' grey lace had made its debut at Ascot a month before...
...bracket of the All-American semifinals, Maureen blasted Akron's steady Shirley Fry off the court, 6-4, 6-3, with unreachable placements. Then, appearing in a purplish cardigan designed by London's Teddy Tinling (who also designed Gussie Moran's lace panties), she faced Louise Brough, three-time (1948-50) Wimbledon champion, who upset Maureen last May to win the Southern California crown...
Best Plays (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Arsenic and Old Lace, with Boris Karloff, Donald Cook...
...great facts of Hoover's life was his devotion to his wife, who died in 1944. To Lou Henry Hoover he has dedicated one room of the Hoover Library at Stanford University, and there he has assembled a small collection of the things which she once treasured: lace presented to her when he was working on Belgian relief, old Spanish silver, blue and white porcelain. In the dusty antique shops under Manhattan's Third Avenue El, Hoover is a familiar figure today, hunting around for more blue and white porcelain. He cherishes recollections of his Iowa boyhood which...