Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sports editors from rival papers kicked because, they said, L'Humanite approved the entry only of French athletes of the proper pink political complexion. At the field itself 10,006 soggy sports fans, who had paid 10 francs each, groused at the political speeches. There was nothing about the races themselves to cheer them up. In the five-kilometer event, half of the huge starting field of 600 dropped out before the end. Many of those remaining were a full lap behind. At the finish: 100 runners crossed the line in such an inextricable melee that nobody could tell...
Opened Door. In 48 hours, the black gangrenous foot had begun to turn pink. Soon the patient could wriggle his toes. As Wirtschafter tried his new treatment on other patients, news of his discovery spread quickly through other Los Angeles hospitals. When Dr. Harry Goldblatt, world-famed high blood pressure expert, came to look, he said: "This is one of the two most exciting moments of my life...
...sales emphasis was on flowers. As usual, Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co., biggest mail-order seed house in the world (1946 gross: $5 million), made the biggest noise. It sent out three million catalogues to push the latest products of its California farm. Items: a yellow-pink snapdragon billed as the "first alldouble snapdragon ever grown from seed" and the "most sensational new flower for 1947"; a pink "alldouble" petunia called the "Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower" ($2 a packet...
...vegetable and flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...
Last week on the cover of the New Yorker, Eustace Tilley took his annual gander at a pink butterfly. Inside, back among the brandy and perfume ads appeared a feature not nearly so old as Eustace Tilley, but already as much of a standby: the quietly perceptive weekly Letter from London. (Last week's topic was the coal crisis: "like living a bad patch of the war all over again...