Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...
Blunder. The minute the decision was announced, the government, watching carefully, sensed a major political blunder. The season had only five weeks to go, and the 50,000 members of the league-leading "Racing" club were furious. So were backers of the second-place "River Plate" club (nicknamed Los Millonarios because of the club's free-handed spending for players). So were the "Boca Juniors" (No. 1 fan: President Juan Perón). So was nearly everybody else...
...rotund Tennessean takes considerable pressure off his squad by assuming it himself. Hickman has been in New Haven for only half a year and is fast becoming a legend. His prodigious appetite, his great girth, the license plate that says "HICK," and the famous stories about the folks back home all eat up news inches, while the Yale team forges ahead undisturbed by the intense light of relentless publicity...
Uneasy Heads. In Mars Hill, N.C., Mary Stringfield, queen of the Carolina Poultry Industries Exposition, ate a plate of scrambled eggs at her coronation and broke out in a rash. In Chicago, Cornelia Ward, queen of the National Safety Council Congress, was shaken up in an automobile accident...
Glass Sandwich. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. announced a new "folding glass," that can be collapsed like an accordion. It is made of thick glass sections joined together by a flexible airtight plastic. First use: in large, full-vision rear windows in the '49 Hudson convertible...