Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under a neat blue letterhead, a publication called Memo went out from Washington last week to 4,000 leaders of U.S. denominations affiliated with the National Council of Churches. Its significance was not in the subject matter (the "educational crisis") but in the fact that it was evidence of a new "organized Protestant witness in Washington...
...several of the reasons that make it a lively newspaper, the neat, tight Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 588,181) loses more capable newsmen than any other Chicago daily. One reason is that the Sun-Times diligently recruits promising staffers, pushes them ahead-and loses many to bigger jobs elsewhere. Two more specific reasons are: brilliant, blustery Executive Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers, 57, as famed for his highhandedness in a rage as for his openhandedness with a raise or bonus; and big (6 ft. i in., 250 Ibs.), bluff Managing Editor Thomas F. (for Fox) Reynolds, 46, whose barracks-square bellow...
...portable was announced last week by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. The 21-in. model is transformed by removing an entire unit from the larger console, placing the console's detachable speaker into a special compartment in the smaller circuit, plugging into any electrical outlet. Price: $229.95 to $379.95. Neat Meat. A new method of packaging frozen meat so that it can be kept for a year or refrozen after defrosting is being introduced by Wrigley supermarkets of Detroit.' After being trimmed, meat cuts are blast-frozen to -20°, encased in two thin, crystal-like, nontoxic sheets...
Some of the woeful inadequacies of life when compared to fiction are made very funny, but the film is not the neat satirical gem that it could be, and for a sad reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...
...than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote TIME'S Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged the foam-cushioned armchairs in a neat plotters' circle. The only proletarians were the help...