Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curious Public. The "prom" tradition goes back to the grand old days of Handel (1685-1759), but the London prom proper was just 60 years old last week. To celebrate the occasion, dapper Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent ("Flash Harry" to the trade) appeared before the crowd five minutes ahead of time. Bearing a laurel wreath, he strode purposefully to the bust of the late Sir Henry Wood, permanent prom conductor for its first half-century, and collared it. Promenaders cheered...
...summer of anxiety for G.I. wives in West Germany. On the heels of Christian Dior and the Flat (or raised) Look came Colonel John H. Dilley and the Proper Look...
...records showed, he was the oldest appendectomy patient in history. Last week he was out of bed, playing cards and giving visitors his recipe for longevity: "Drink deep, smoke like billyo, work as hard as you have to, and hate the Tories good and proper...
...unheralded bill requiring subversives to register with the Attorney General all printing equipment (presses, duplicating and photo-offset machines, etc.). Sponsored by Idaho Republican Senator Herman Welker, the bill passed both houses without debate or opposition, is intended "to bring these [printing] operations into the open to permit proper surveillance...
...North: Geneva's decision reached into the Hanoi office of Dr. Hoang Co Binh, dentist and head of the Committee for the Defense of North Viet Nam. Stoutly, Dr. Binh proclaimed: "Not a single Viet Minh will be allowed into Hanoi until the proper time. And there will be no Viet Minh flags...