Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick hand with cash became so famous last week that House investigators pricked up their ears when they heard that his mills had sold the U.S. Army $2,255,000 worth of cloth in the last five years for uniform shirts and pants. (Also: $42,651 for green pool-table cloth, presumably used to cover Navy mess tables.) At the same time the investigators were asking Goldfine to bring to the committee, when he appears next week, some $770,000 in uncashed cashier's checks that they learned about from study of his records...
Suggestion of Veils. "Success is a terrible attack on your sense of values," admits onetime Paratrooper Serling. "You get teed off because the heater of your swimming pool doesn't work. But you've got to keep remembering that half of living is wanting." Last week Serling had more to fret over than his Hollywood pool. He, his sense of values and his Playhouse go show called A Town Has Turned to Dust were in the eye of one of the wildest storms ever to batter a TV script...
...with the girl about her latest beau and gets into the usual back-and-forth with the oldest boy about the business. Finally, it all winds up in a big fight, and Pa insults the daughter's No. 1 prospect (Warren Stevens) and then stomps off to the pool hall with the younger boy, leaving Alma to face another of those long, long evenings alone, fooling around the kitchen, wondering what has gone wrong...
...thousands who eddy each day through the 470-acre exhibit-packed Brussels World's Fair, the U.S. Pavilion, with its open plaza, reflecting pool and splashing fountains, has become a star attraction. But what is inside the lofty, translucent drum designed by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, Cover, March 31) has become the subject of a running controversy, at home and abroad. Main reason is that the U.S., setting out to give its interpretation of a new humanism tailored to fit the Atomic Age, decided it could win more friends by using the soft sell. The result...
...give a cross section of this beneficent presence, from, the most naive form to the most sophisticated, the U.S. fair staff appointed experts to pick 181 paintings, sculptures and craft objects, and divided them into four different exhibits. Contemporary sculpture was placed in the pavilion's interior pool; displays featuring 41 examples of native Indian art, a wide selection of American folk art, and, most controversial of all, 44 paintings by 17 artists under 45 now working from Manhattan to San Francisco, were spread out elsewhere in the building...