Word: politan
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...Forest Lawn, the West Covina vigilantes were a painful affront. Forest Lawn likes to think of itself as a kind of necro-politan neighborhood improvement society. The verdant lawns and artfully sunlit edifices of the first Forest Lawn in Glendale contain, advertises Eaton, the largest collection of statuary in the U.S., as well as 200,000 "loved ones." The cemetery draws 1,000,000 tourists a year, has net assets of more than $16 million, and last year grossed - tax-exempt - $2,300,000. It has also planted two little Forest Lawns in Hollywood Hills and Cypress, Calif...
Upon his resignation this summer, Bender will become Associate Director of the Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund, Committee officials announced yesterday. The Boston foundation last year distributed over $700,000 to "health, social welfare, educational, and cultural" agencies and institutions in the metro-politan area...
...pudgy ex-King Farouk, never a man to conceal his liking for girls, was busy beating down one of the most start ling rumors about himself to arise since his dethronement and divorce. The hot word: he plans on marrying his current traveling companion, a voluptuous Nea politan named Irma Capece Minutolo, 20, whose right to be called a marchioness was recently disputed when two Italian newsmen declared that her parents were a chauffeur and a janitor's daughter. At the newsmen's trial for slander, Irma's father had indignantly complained: "To doubt my daughter...
...immature readers added to the mass of mildly educated people in the country, there is every prospect for the continued vigor of tabloids and semi-tabloids. Nevertheless the optimism of such an outstanding journalist as Mr. Lippman is cheering. Post-war feverishness has found expression largely in the metro-politan dailies, and a revival of sanity and restraint in the press would be a hopeful sign for American civilization. It will be interesting to observe the ratio between the Times and the Graphic in the subway cars...
...money of the late Adolphus Busch of St. Louis and the late George Ehret of Manhattan poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia...