Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young, a stenographer in the White House, got the fur coat-a "natural royal pastel" mink, one of "the better" types-because of her husband Merl's vast capacity for making "friends." Merl did not even have to lay out a dollar for the coat. Joseph H. Rosenbaum, a Washington attorney specializing in clients who want RFC funds, paid for it and took Merl's note for the $8,540 purchase price. Had Rosenbaum picked up the tab for the fur coat because of Merl Young's influence at the RFC, the W7hite House and with "many...
...show: 20 portraits of famous people painted as Vertes imagines they must have looked in childhood. Most of them pretty and all more or less penetrating, the portraits were done with a feather-light virtuoso touch reminiscent of Manet. The drawing was sketchy but never scratchy, the colors pastel but never pasty...
...comfortable coziness of such glamorous old hangouts as the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza, was in the midst of a barnstorming tour of 65 one-night stands. Her caravan included her own chauffeur-driven Cadillac, five other sedans for her staff and ten-piece orchestra, and a pastel-yellow Mack truck for the musical instruments and her four trunks of gowns...
...foot passenger cargo liner, the S.S. President Jackson, in Camden, NJ. last week Built at a cost of %13 million Jackson does 19 knots, is the first of three new round-the-world liners which American President will have in service by May 1951 The Jackson which-has pastel-tinted interiors designed by Raymond Loewy air-conditioned staterooms and an outdoor swimming pool, can carry 204 passengers, all first class. Fare for the 100-day globe-girdling cruise...
House Beautiful. In Oklahoma City, Police Chief L. J. Hilbert hoped that his prisoners would "be more contented" as soon as he got that blinding red paint off the walls of the jail, replaced it with some creamy whites, restful greens and pastel blues...