Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inhaling deeply after the last pink ballot had been totted up, Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49, sighed deeply yesterday afternoon and then announced that her foetal magazine was still nameless. The reason, she said, was that Tuesday's balloting was much too close to be decisive...
Four selections, considered by the nebulous editorial board to be those most likely to succeed, will be submitted to the mass of feminine undergraduate judges tomorrow. Ballots, reported to be printed on flowery pink paper, are being stuffed head-on into Annex mailboxes even...
...passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life, the day she first drops inhibition and learns sex exists outside of Boccaccio...
...yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy-colored canvas of four weird, grief-crazed creatures with a dead child...
...pink coats and popinjays were not really his dish. Never really happy unless he is closing-or opening-a deal, he kept a finger in the financial pot. He made friends with the great London bankers, J. Henry Schroder & Co. and Alfred Loewenstein, the hard-headed Belgian who came up from nothing to be rated as third richest man in the world, controlling a worldwide utility empire. And V.E. played the stockmarket. By 1928, when he had just turned 30, he was worth some $40,000,000-on paper. But it was not enough. It just whetted his appetite...