Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Man. Bob Gross, at 48, is a small (5 ft. 7½ in.), well-built man with a pink face, greying brown hair and bright blue eyes. Among planemaking tycoons, predominantly an inbred and individualistic group of onetime designers and pilots, Bob Gross is a sport. He is not a pilot. He knows little about aerodynamics. As a production man and administrator he is just soso. Yet he has one talent which more than balances these apparent deficiencies...
Laundry Bag. In Los Angeles, a clothes line thief snatched 25 pairs of pink panties in one week...
...last week the guy was around, for all Chicago to see. Paul Hindemith, Nazi Germany's No. 1 musical outlaw, led 30 musicians through four of his more recent works. A crinkly-eyed, cherubic little (5 ft. 4 in.) man with mouse-colored hair haloing a pink pate, he looked more like a Benedictine friar than a musical anarchist. The anarchy was too much for some of the audience, who walked out at half time. But other martyrs who had come to give dissonance its due found the new Hindemith shockingly pleasant to listen...
...Happy Rock, which is printed on pink, orange, blue and saffron paper, 30 intellectuals, of whom most people never heard, pay tribute to a U.S. writer, whom most people have never read. The subject of their encomiums is ex-expatriate Author Henry Miller...
Slip of the Hand. But when Perc and his brothers branched out into the beauty business in 1933, in a pink-brocaded, chromium and black-glass salon on Sunset Boulevard, their, hand slipped. None had any business sense. The House of Westmore almost folded before they hired a businessman, S. Willard Isaacs, former owner of a local beauty-shop chain, to run it. He still runs the House of Westmore. Last year it grossed $2,225,000 from the sale of Westmore products, $300,000 more from the salon, paid the brothers both salaries and handsome dividends...