Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still an incessant traveler, Scott spends four months a year abroad, talking to political, military, educational and religious leaders and just plain men in the streets of such places as Tegucigalpa, Vienna, Algiers, Kandy and Vizagapatnam. Last year he toured Latin America ; now he is just returned from 100 days in the Middle East and India. His purpose is to see, hear and feel the sights, sounds and attitudes of lands currently in the news, the better to sound-track TIME'S unique journalism for discussion groups and organizational meetings...
Into a remodeled brownstone in Manhattan last week swarmed 6.400 people interested in a plain cousin of the fine arts. The converted brownstone, on 53rd Street just off Fifth Avenue and hard by the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, houses the new $400,000 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, the first museum in the U.S. devoted entirely to handicrafts...
...rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
Need Money? But whether Louis Wolfson made or lost money-and his deals were so complicated that outsiders could hardly tell-the motive that led Wolfson to reverse himself and preside over liquidation of part of his empire was plain: he needed cash. In seven years of fast dealing he had transformed Merritt-Chapman & Scott from an old-line marine construction and salvage company into a burgeoning industrial complex (paints, chemicals, steel, truck trailers, shipbuilding). Assets soared 138% to $239.5 million; the gross went up 800% to $360.3 million. But as the empire grew, so did its financial needs. Wolfson...
Pretty, vigorous Sarah had been the playmate of dull and plain little Princess Anne. When Author Rowse says bluntly that "Anne was in love" with Sarah, he is probably not exaggerating. For Sarah's smile Anne was prepared to do anything-and Sarah made sure she did. Under Queen Anne, Sarah became Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes and Comptroller of the Privy Purse: soon "the Queen was surrounded by Churchills," all on the make and growing richer every day. John was given command of the Anglo-Dutch armies, and with Sarah holding the fort at home...