Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best of all, the Democrats will be hiring their hall for almost nothing; most of the rental costs will be met by the promoters of a commercial exhibit called "American Showcase." Delegates can get free shaves at the Ronson booth, pick up free samples of Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and, from the Norex division of Schenley Industries, Amitone, a relief for acid indigestion (common at conventions...
...Place in the Party. Today Harry Truman stands higher in Democratic affections than he did when he left office on Jan. 20, 1953. Fondly remembered is the way he met international crises with sharp decision: the atomic bomb, the Berlin blockade, the Marshall Plan, Greek-Turkish aid, Korea. Fading into the mist of memory is the fact that his Administration not only failed to prevent domestic crisis but produced it wholesale: mink coats, Deep Freezes, red herrings, limited war, peacetime recession, agricultural waste, steel seizure. Since he left the White House, Democrats have come to look on Truman...
...Chicago Democrats were already coming to life in anticipation of Truman's arrival: a heated dispute was under way over whether he should be met at the station by a white or a black limousine (available for convention use are 150 Fords, 60 Mercurys and, for the VIPiest VIPs, 15 Lincolns). The consensus, as expressed by a member of the host committee : "Mr. Truman is not Marilyn Monroe. I think he should be met in black...
Paying a Debt. "They're suspicious of us culturally." he says, referring to people he met on his recent ANTA tour of the Far East. "But at the same time they're pathetically anxious to hear what we have to offer." In Japan in particular. Istomin found, audiences were attracted by the openness and spontaneity of Western music...
...widow, but not even her scriptwriters know who her husband was, or what ever became of him. Helen never tells. She is invincibly pure, relentlessly humorless (because her fans want heartthrobs, not laughs). Once, seven years ago, she walked uninvited into the stateroom of a man she had just met on shipboard. Faithful listeners were scandalized. Helen is now allowed to wear tight skirts and low-cut gowns, but she neither smokes nor drinks. Helen's enemy, Gossip Columnist Daisy Parker, drinks a "martini on the rocks," always specifying, "and no olive"-thus conclusively demonstrating her low moral stature...