Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American realism reached another early peak in dashing, snuff-snuffling Gilbert Stuart. Once, when a customer complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the master snapped: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...
...barely survived the early Depression, but revived rapidly under the New Deal, when the C.I.O. started dozens of union papers. Despite its Red sympathies, F.P. boasted some 200 subscribers (including many anti-Communist publications) at its peak shortly after World War II. But the agency's biggest support came from labor journals. In 1949, when the C.I.O. started cleaning out Red unions, a non-Communist labor news service called the Labor Press Association siphoned away many union papers. Though L.P.A. folded in 1954, Haessler survived by servicing the two principal U.S. Communist dailies-Manhattan's Daily Worker...
...waspish foreigner known as Vicky. As six-days-a-week political cartoonist for the Laborite Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,-696), world's biggest daily, German-born Vicky (real name: Victor Weisz) has built the largest following of any British cartoonist since David Low at his wartime peak. While he has not as yet won Low's fame, most Fleet Streeters agree that Vicky is Britain's top cartoonist...
...Lana at Peak Hours. Viewers had little cause for complaint, except where too many commercials studded the movies to pay off their huge costs. Some network executives professed to be unworried; they said that affiliates are showing the big movies on their own time, not during the choice hours pledged to networks. But NBC, staunch champion of "live" television (in part because of its deep involvement in color TV) is frankly fretting...
...show-though, gamely, still on a live basis. What NBC dreads is that it may one day be helpless to accommodate an advertiser on its full national network because too many of its ISO-odd "optional" affiliates will be engrossed by Robert Taylor making love to Lana Turner at peak hours...