Word: mono
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perennially best-dressed Mrs. Mono Williams, 57, widow of Utilitycoon Harrison Williams and chief heir to his reported $100 million, opened a flower and fruit stand on the grounds of her 60-acre Long Island estate. Planning to peddle the products of her own gardens and orchards, she saw no good reason why the rich should not grow richer. Said she: "It's not just for fun. I hope the shop will pay for itself. You don't go into business unless you plan to make money...
...Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings has written witheringly about antiques (Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale) and modern art (Mono, Lisa's Mustache). In his new book, Homes of the Brave (Knopf; $3.50), he launches an attack on modern home design that may send readers reeling back to the old mohair sofa...
Columnists were busy making a match between Bing Crosby, 48, and blonde, Cinemactress Mono (Dear Wife) Freeman, 26, first introduced to Hollywood by Producer Howard Hughes, who discovered her working as a model in Manhattan. Louella Parsons noted that Mona's mother "is taking shots and getting her passports so she can accompany Mona to Europe. There's a possible picture deal, and, of course, Bing Crosby," who sailed last week on the Queen Elisabeth. Broadway's Danton Walker reported that friends predicted a wedding "at St. Moritz, Switzerland, in December...
...Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...
...remarkable recovery time of mono patients (about two weeks, compared to the usual two or three months convalescence) is due to the quick action of University physicians in diagnosing and treating the disease. But speedy recovery is not restricted to mononucleosis. Recent figures show that patients spend an average of 3.7 days in the infirmary where in the 20's the average stay was 6.9 days...