Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio doesn't grab you like TV," says NBC's President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver. "It's more like a companion." It's as a companion that Weaver wants to use it-to get back an audience which...
...Pat McGinnis has a personal interest in maintainance: he spends more than half his time riding the New Haven in his comfortably furnished private car.* To most passengers, the most notable change on the New Haven since McGinnis took over has been the bold use of color on its rolling stock and on some Cape Cod and Westchester County stations. Last week McGinnis' dark-haired wife Lucille, a onetime interior decorator, was riding the New Haven with Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki, bent on "perking up" the road's dark and dingy stations in what McGinnis calls (he "grey...
...National Airport, the door of the big Constellation swung open and President Carlos Castillo Armas and his pretty, dark-eyed wife plunged into the pleasant confusion with which the U.S. welcomes visiting heads of state. Guns boomed, bands played, troops paraded. Smiling Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat hurried up to greet the Castillo Armases like the friends they have been since the Nixons' Caribbean tour last February. "Again!" shouted the photographers over and over. "It's an old American custom," Nixon explained. "I know," replied Castillo Armas. "They do the same thing in Guatemala...
With all the fanfare of a Hollywood opening, the A.F.L. teamsters, biggest U.S. union, last week dedicated its white marble, four-story headquarters in Washington, just across the plaza from the Capitol. Guests received embossed invitations; from Hollywood came Movie Stars Pat O'Brien, Walter Pidgeon, Dan Dailey and George Murphy-all A.F.L. card carriers. In his dedicatory speech, Teamster Boss Dave Beck noted that some critics had complained that the building was "perhaps too grand" for working folk, but he told them: "This is a tribute to what the working people of America can accomplish...
...lovely women do when they stoop to folly. They do not-in McCarthy books-smooth their hair with automatic hand and put a record on the gramophone. They are the gramophone. They come out of the clinches monologizing as they attempt to rearrange reality in a more comfortable shape, pat the pillows and make a man wish he had curled up instead with a good book. Old-fashioned readers may feel that Author McCarthy is adopting the classic line of the British morale officer detailed to lecture the troops on the perils of venereal disease. "I don't suppose...