Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midway between then & now were White Rock's angelic nymph, Kellogg's Corn Flakes' calico-clad "sweetheart of the corn" and Baker Chocolate's "La Belle Chocolatiere." .Today's climax is typified by Aircooled Motors Corp.'s (Franklin engines) current advertising illustration of a lithe and leggy air-cooled lovely clad in little or nothing and saying bithely into a phone: "Pick me up at eight . . . and we'll fly to the club...
...Italy is dependent on imports for meat, eggs, coffee, oats, corn and wheat. Her wheat supply has in recent years been stepped up by the successful reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, but her estimated annual wheat supply of 7,000,000 tons is still less than 90% of her rock-bottom requirements...
...Ladies Only. The women's final brought together two red-gold coiffured stylists, sturdy Louise Brough (rhymes with rock) and the trim 1942 champ with the trigger backhand, Pauline Betz. Miss Betz had a tough three-set tussle to renew her title...
...What should pop up in the Hudson Valley last week but Archeology itself. And the ferret that caused the pop was no Archeologist, Ph. D., but a Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing...
Roused from their museums, several eminent archeologists scurried to the rock shelter. Copenhagen's Helge Larsen, now a curator at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, was heard to observe that the 17th-Century Indians had a lower culture than did the Alaskan Eskimos whose remains he had just been studying. His colleague, Anthropologist Junius B. Bird, was pleased that the girls had made good use of the lectures they had heard...