Word: pink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in history," the announcer intones, "a dog appears as the star of a national radio program. But . . . a word from our star, Lassie. All your fans have asked what your favorite color is. Is it blue? [Pause] Pink? [Pause] Now don't tell me it's Red Heart...
...take care of everything." The wife lay In a double bed, and she looked desperately weary. But the sheets on the bed were clean. There was a white cloth on the table and flowers in the window, and the baby thrashed around happily in a clean pink woolen suit. There was an electric cooker-"The food from the kitchens has become a great deal worse recently," the mother said-and the clothes were hung neatly in the closet...
...Spain (TIME, June 23) and a greeting from the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Sforza, stepped to the Embassy's balcony to receive the applause she expected. A straw hat with two huge roses topped her honey-colored hair piled in a pompadour; her black silk dress with pink print flowers was pulled tight...
Hearst's afternoon daily, the Herald & Express, has had a high turnover in city editors. One reason is the managing editor, crusty, hard-riding John B. T. Campbell, who used to be city editor himself and still acts like one; he is a fast man with the pink slip. Managing Editor Campbell has been firing city editors at the rate of two a year; in the process he virtually reduced the job to schedule-shuffling while he bossed the show from a city-room desk. What Campbell needed was somebody who could put up with him, and if need...
Their pleasant surprise was shared by Lucky Stores, Inc. and its burly, pink-faced president, Charles Crouch, 49. As an experiment he had hired New York's Raymond Loewy Associates to see if barnlike, depressing super markets could be imbued with some beauty. Crouch had an idea it would help lure in housewives. When he opened his $248,000 store, Crouch thought it was beautiful enough to gross $39,000 weekly. Last week, when he totted up the first four weeks' take, he found that he had underestimated its beauty; the gross was averaging...