Word: shakerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tahiti (TIME, June 23, 1952) twangs the rather snarled relations of a bored suburban couple. In its breakfast-table and business-day vignettes, it takes on some of the flatness of its subject matter. But its mockingbird passages-as when a trio hymns the joys of Scarsdale or Shaker Heights-are brighter, and it gets very bright and funny when Singer Alice Ghostley, while meaning to sneer at the movie she's seen, rhapsodically pants over...
...Meany was elected secretary-treasurer of the New York building trades council and began to be a minor mover and shaker in city labor affairs. With the Depression, construction work in New York almost came to a halt. Along with other union officials, Meany took a 50% cut in salary, then went nine months with no pay. The city unions were in a desperate condition, and when an upstate bartender seemed likely to become state president of the A.F.L., the New York City building trades decided he knew nothing about their problems, and nominated Meany, who was elected...
Died. Robert J. Minshall, 56, onetime Boeing Aircraft Co. vice president, principal designer of World War II's famed B-17 Flying Fortress and winner in 1940 of the Musick Memorial Trophy for his pioneering work on transoceanic clippers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shaker Heights, Ohio...
Jacques de Menasce: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Edmund Appia and the composer at the piano; Vanguard). Like Paganini and Liszt, Composer de Menasce writes his own showpieces. If not exactly a world-shaker, this one is able, sophisticated and full of pianistic beans...
Other food trends noted by Columnist Paddleford: the elimination of an appetizer at dinner parties ("It's no disgrace at all to serve dinner without a first course"); filling guests awaiting dinner with cold soup from a cocktail shaker; casserole dishes that "don't spoil if the crowd gets a little high...