Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cards, and the address sticker which is glued to the copy of TIME each week is copied from this card. This is done on a facsimile machine, a fantastic electric eye device which "reads" the printing with a light beam and reprints the information on rolls of pink paper...
Night Among Friends. The old gentleman smiled a cautious smile, lifted a hand in greeting, and stood holding himself stiffly erect, almost as if overwhelmed by the sound. Herbert Hoover was 77. Time had whitened his hair, turned his cheeks a flaming pink, and softened the lines of his face. For 20 years he had suffered, with dignity and without complaint, an auto da fé of criticism such as few men, even in public life, have ever endured. But this was his night among friends, his night for the homage due an ancient warrior. The uproar lasted...
Thirteen Bob a Week. Johnson was picked for the deanery in 1931 by his friend, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald. When the "Red Dean" earned his first notoriety as a mere pink, nobody minded too much. Like a well-cast stock actor clothed in Episcopal gaiters, his shining pate tonsured by nature and surrounded by a chaplet of purest white hair, Dr. Johnson looked the very picture of pious benignity, and his mildly leftish pronouncements were not too unfashionable at the time. The dean let it be known that he had started life as a mill hand at 13 shillings a week...
...staffed with the prettier girls-was also concerned with bodies. A Cleveland lawyer named Paul Walter, close friend of Bob Taft's, proudly displayed a file of cards carrying the name of each delegate together with vital political statistics. Taft cards carried blue tabs while Ike cards wore pink, other candidates black. Behind curtains, Walter kept a huge board with colored thumbtacks representing each delegate...
...rank among U.S. architectural schools, in part at least because of Walter Gropius (TIME, Jan. 21). He was renowned as the founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus school, and youngsters for whom the words Gropius and Bauhaus meant crisp, challenging modernism followed him to Harvard. There, amid the pink & white Georgian of the Yard, he and his collaborators built a modern brick and glass graduate center. But for the most part, Gropius built little, was content to be a teacher, one of the three division chiefs in the School of Design, and a pervasive influence. Last month Harvard decided...