Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure of Britain's mood that when the call went out for 500 volunteers to serve in the canteens on Cyprus, no fewer than 17,000 (mostly women) stepped forward-by telephone and in queues that formed at 5 a.m.-to volunteer for duty in the turbulent front line...
...president of sprawling W. R. Grace & Co., which is the No. 1 banker, shipping line, manufacturer and trader on South America's West Coast, last week turned his businessman's brain and long Latin American experience to the worrisome problem of U.S.-Latin American relations, suggested some concrete ways to improve them. Speaking to alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Joseph Peter Grace Jr.. 45, noted the hemisphere's close ties, both economic ("It is the area where we have the largest direct private investment abroad-almost...
Possibly because the line of journalistic duty runs through so many dreary assembled prides of Lions, lumber dealers, plumbers and Jaycees. newsmen usually make indifferent conventioners. Faced with a gathering of their own clan, they either ignore it or show up reluctantly, prepared to sit out the interminable sessions in bored and unresponsive silence. Last week's silver anniversary convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association at French Lick, Ind. was no exception, but before the session was over, the editors got down to some plain talk about themselves. Items: ¶Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons, onetime Boston...
...Jenkins' own surprise, Clarion Concerts was a rousing success at the box office. Before Jenkins gets through, his subscription audience will have encountered such obscure 18th century composers as Franz Anton Rossler, The Chevalier de Saint-George and Francesco Antonio Bonporti. In the concert-hall business, a line-up like that is equivalent to a Las Vegas chorus line composed entirely of suburban matrons...
...traditional saris and dhotis, but that was as far as tradition went. As the stage lights snapped on to illuminate a blindingly white rectangle of ice-50 ft. wide and 100 ft. long-bedazzled spectators found themselves plunk in the middle of a late model U.S. ice show. A line of leggy chorus girls jazzed across the frozen stage, acrobats jumped, buffoons rocked, swayed and tumbled...