Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plump, pink-cheeked Mme. Chideu runs a little grocery store near the Cherbourg water front. Housewives who come in for fruit, milk, butter and vegetables love to gossip with the patronne over anything & everything, from the latest grapevine news to the capers of les americains. Last week TIME Correspondent William Walton walked into Mme. Chideu's shop. He asked her and some of her customers how things were going, came away with a human report on Allied fiscal policy in one corner of France...
Rockets' Red Glare. Overnight the news and rumors that trickled belatedly to China's rear changed from black to rosy pink. In the air-base city of Kweilin-in serious danger from the Japanese offensive-hasty defense works and evacuation of civilians were abandoned. TIME Correspondent Teddy White reported that rockets crimsoned the sky, firecrackers popped and pinwheels whirled, newsboys shrieked the tidings in late extras. At the American air bases where transports had been hurrying out refugees and stores, the grim mood lifted. G.I.s smiled, wiped the sweat from their faces, boasted happily: "We done it again...
...southern England, one of the missiles hit a nursery home in which 26 tiny war orphans were sleeping. The first body recovered from the welter of wreckage was a dead, dark-haired little boy in a blue bed jacket; the second, a dead, blonde little girl in a pink nightdress...
State of Siege. In the future of The Netherlands, the underground expects to play a powerful part, and exiled Queen Wilhelmina has already recognized its strength. When she and her Prime Minister, gnomish, pink-&-white Dr. Pieter S. Gerbrandy, return to Holland, they will carry a three-stage plan: 1) underground leaders will be given places in the Government immediately; 2) the country will be kept in a state of siege until the Germans and their Dutch collaborators are purged, the war with Japan finished; 3) when conditions permit, in the Queen's and Cabinet's view...
Died. Benjamin H. Marshall, 70, design-for-living architect; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. He. designed Chicago's Blackstone, Drake and Edgewater Beach hotels, New York's Maxine Elliott Theater and Philadelphia's Forrest, for himself designed a pink, gaudy, tricked-up house which boasted a Ming bed that slept seven, a dining table that came up with the soup course, sank to the kitchen below, came back with the chicken and gravy...