Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These celebrations serve a very useful purpose to both the corporation and the press. They give newsmen and the public generally an opportunity they might not otherwise have to get to know the makeup of many of the companies and industries which contribute so much to our competitive economy...
...turn of the century, eight dailies were crammed together on the narrow, twisting section of Washington Street in downtown Boston called "Newspaper Row." Eight was too many. There, elbowing each other for space and circulation, the Boston papers developed their traditional pattern of frantic promotions, flashy makeup and lackadaisical reporting...
Wooing the Advertiser. This look-and-leap makeup has one virtue, at least to business-office eyes. "It makes the reader go through the entire paper," argues one official. "We can tell an advertiser that every one of our pages is well read." Wooing the advertiser further, Boston papers zealously cover every ribbon-cutting ceremony in the city. But no real attempt is made to cover the city's constant flow of major educational, scientific and medical stories. Deskmen often fumble major stories; e.g., one paper ran Russia's first A-bomb explosion below the fold...
...well-dressed young women." Recently one girls' school decided that a modest blossoming might not bring on moral blight: Headmistress Eileen Evans of Bedfordshire's Luton High School announced that her sixth-formers (mostly 17-year-olds) could chuck their uniforms, put on regular dresses, nylons and makeup -but no jewelry. Encouraged by this move, one clothier last week invited headmistresses to a showing of remodeled uniforms, including gym slips with "a hint of fashion line...
...card sharps who operate in ever-widening circles of duplicity. Apart from their penchant for peculation, Gogol's characters are not a very lively bunch, so it is all to the good that director William Kelley has decked out his production with all sorts of bizarrerie, most notably makeup in vivid shades of red, blue, white, and green. Set designer Roberta Weiner has provided black walls for her hotel room, and it is lit (by John Herzog and Charles Kennel) mostly with stark white shafts. It's odd, very odd, but it comes...