Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he recovered, Malinovsky was assigned to the Iron Division, a crack Czarist outfit sent to France as a symbol of Allied solidarity. In France, Malinovsky acquired respect for British troops-"Ah, those British! Always smoking their pipes, even during an attack!"-and a sneaking liking for Americans: "The Russians and the Americans got along together, especially when it came to having a drink or smashing glasses in a café." But his fondest memories are of "those French girls." In Paris last week, he confided that the three phrases he could still manage in both English and French were...
...receive them meticulously tailored, after two hotel-room fittings, less than 24 hours later. In the same time and for even less money his wife, pointing to the pages of a Harper's Bazaar or Vogue kept on the counter of every Queen's Road tailor, can outfit herself in a copied suit, cocktail ensemble and dinner dress, all in rich Thai silk...
According to records subpoenaed by the subcommittee, Welch hooked up in 1952 with a Manhattan publishing outfit called MD Publications Inc. to put out a series of medical journals puffing new drugs. As editor, he got quite a deal: 7½% of the net advertising income, plus 25% of the income from the cost of adding "extra," late-closing pages, plus 50% of the net income from the sale of reprints...
...Allen told Harry Truman that he was going to switch his lifelong political allegiance and vote for his good friend, Republican Dwight Eisenhower. Replied Truman: "Why, that's all right, George. I once voted for a Republican myself. He was a friend who served in my outfit in the Army." But it wasn't all right. Allen was as witty as ever, and as expert at the bridge table with Ike as he was at the poker table with Truman. He made Ike feel at home at Burning Tree golf course, has been host to the Eisenhowers...
WHEN Brower took over BBDO in 1957 from BBDO President Bernard Cornelius Duffy, it was like a batter following a home run by Babe Ruth. Ben Duffy, one of the shrewdest and best-liked admen ever to stroll Madison Avenue, had built BBDO from a smalltime outfit postwar into fourth place in the industry before he was forced to retire from active leadership after a stroke. No sooner had Brower taken over than he faced a passel of trouble. Revlon, Inc. pulled out its $7,000,000 account. Then, to avoid trouble with its $17 million American Tobacco account, BBDO...