Word: mop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because he was convinced that the sun's ultraviolet light beating into the skull would destroy the ability to distinguish between nuances of grey; he ordered that the friendly spiders which abounded in his studio should not be disturbed (the maids hid behind the coal pile the mop used for brushing down spiderwebs). He was a patient and humorous father; explaining the meaning of duty to his son, he would recall his own boyhood as a tailor's son. "I had to shell green peas and I loathed it. But I knew that it was part...
Down to Work. Stuarti wraps up all this dolcezza in what he calls his "there are no strangers, only friends I haven't met" approach. A slender, handsome, loosely jointed man with a wild mop of brown hair, he woos his audiences with a wide assortment of audio-visual aids: a nifty little tango step, a flinging of the arms, a flexing of the knees, and a sort of deep lumbar lean that threatens to topple him over backward. He may drift around the room, mike in hand, gazing smokily into the eyes of ringside ladies, who invariably gaze...
...Evergreen Park, a dozen girls from age six upward, whooshed into the local beauty shop for their regular Saturday appointments, emerged topheavy with "beehive" and "lioness" hairdos. Sighed Manager Warren Miller: "They've got more hair than they've got face. I'd call it a mop...
...quick glance, mop-haired Jean Frène, 20, seems to be a French version of Li'l Abner. The ninth of eleven children, he grew up in a dirt-floor stone hut on a hardscrabble farm near the hamlet of Longes (pop. 500), 30 miles south of Lyons. Life was so poor that ten years ago his father went to work in a steel plant, where he earns $100 a month. At 14, Jean quit school to work on the farm, seeing little future beyond hard labor and a draft call to Algeria when he reached...
...Lockheed rode into the red by $43 million. Then last September cancer killed Chairman Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64. who had gambled $40,000 to take over the failing company in 1932. and subsequently gave it not only a place in the sun but also a Constellation. Left to mop up the problems was his shy and schoolmasterly brother. Courtlandt Sherrington Gross, 57. As Lockheed's longtime president. Court Gross had always stood in the long shadow of Brother Bob, and more than a few airmen wondered whether he was up to the bigger...