Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department Stores Co. in 1946), philanthropist, civic leader, fancier of modern homes (the most famous of his houses: Falling Water, the lavish $90,000 Frank Lloyd Wright mountain retreat located at Bear Run, Pa., which features concrete slabs cantilevered over a waterfall); of a heart condition; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...Mass." Its drumbeat did not seem out of place to the natives who crowded the mission church of St. Anne in Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. The church's curving Gothic arch resembled the silhouette of an outsized mud hut, and its lofty vaults and arches were modeled after palm trees. The altar was made of two rough boulders topped by a monolith and the simple carved benches resembled witch doctors' ritual chairs. With its glassless windows admitting light and air and its roof covered with brilliant emerald tiles, the church seemed like a cool spot in the jungle...
...fancy chuck wagon parked near Palm Springs, Calif., rugged Cinemactor Clark (Mogambo) Gable and his old-time playmate, sometime Actress Kay Williams Spreckels, fifth ex-wife of Sugar (Honey Dew) Daddy Adolph Spreckels II, lined up for morning chow. With other early risers of the Desert Riders, oldest galloping group in those parts, they had just taken a constitutional in the saddle as dawn peeped over the oasis...
...Palm Springs, Calif., Leo ("The Lip") Duroc'her, bellicose manager of the New York Giants, dawdled with a golf club while his neatly fabricated wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day, photographed a sunny scene for their family archives. Durocher's sunny mood and vacation will end next week, when he will be in Phoenix to start spring training, whip the world champion Giants into shape for aiming at their 18th National League pennant...
Died. Worthington Scranton, 78, grand son of the founding family of Scranton, Pa., onetime (1906-28) president of the Scranton Gas & Water Co., banker, prominent figure in state and national affairs of the Republican Party, philanthropist and civic leader; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...