Word: rumpledness
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Said one finance minister as he sat down to lunch with a glass of milk: "I can't drink this wonderful milk without thinking of my children"-somewhere in occupied Europe, if still alive. Delegate Edward Eagle Brown, president of Chicago's First National Bank, went about for...
Suspicious Signals. The man most entitled to take the bow is rumpled, bashful George Sterling, 49, a native of Peaks Island, Me., who built his first radio station in 1908, assisted in organizing a U.S. Signal Corps radio intelligence section in France in 1917, joined FCC in 1935, became RID...
Chester Bowles, the Senate Banking and Currency Committee found out last week, did not spend 14 years as a high-powered Manhattan advertising man (Benton and Bowles) for nothing. Neat, decorous and urbane (in vivid contrast to his pudgy, rumpled, truculent predecessor, Leon Henderson), the OPAdministrator appeared before the Committeee...
Sir Oscar interrupted his reading back of testimony when he came to a statement that the sheets on Harold Christie's bed were ruffled and the pillow dented. "Ruffled?" mused the Justice. "I think 'rumpled' is a better word. However, we shall leave it 'ruffled'...
On Duffy's Tavern (TIME, June 21) last week the bird laughed, whistled, sneezed and sang The Star-Spangled Banner. At the preshow rehearsal, with a full audience, the feathered guest star was in especially fine form. Raffles pondered the best lines of Duffy's star, rumpled Ed...