Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Postal Troubles. Playboy has a professional sheen and a formula pitched at male adolescents of all ages, notably those on college campuses, where 25% of its copies are sold. There are breezy short stories, ribald classics, e.g., by Boccaccio, De Maupassant, articles on men's styles, bawdy cartoons, club-car jokes and limericks and a heaping helping of cheesecake, such as a full-color view of a "Playmate of the Month" (see MILESTONES), sometimes posed by its own staffers, e.g., Subscription Manager Janet Pilgrim, 21. The magazine whets readers' interest by first letting them see what each month...
...dependence on the West and established himself as a hero in the Arab world. But it was a triumph that had a price: it put his dealings with the U.S. on a basis that. was sometimes not far from blackmail, and as a result removed some of his idealist sheen in U.S. eyes...
...fancy pants line, fine sheen gabardines and chinos prevail. To top them off corduroy shirt-jackets are the newest. Sport blouses with drawstring waists and cowl neck are another headliner. With colored braid and bow, sailor middies in white broadcloth are again popular...
...Race You. In 1920 C.U. recalled Father Smith as an instructor of philosophy (among his first students: the future Bishop Fulton Sheen). Soon the whole campus became acutely aware of the bluff young priest and his odd habits. At any time he was apt to march up to a student and say, "Come on, I'll race you to Gibbons Hall." Sometimes, just for the exercise, he would take the B. & O. to Rockville, 16 miles away, then return to campus by walking 100 yards, running the next 100, walking the next, and so on. He became a fixture...
...Eden. She tilted her ink-black mane at a confident angle and poured out in seductive French: "When I'll give you my love? I'm sure I couldn't say; perhaps not at all-tomorrow I may." Her big voice had a dark, anthracite sheen, sometimes with more polish than depth, sometimes with not quite enough polish, but always firm and sometimes thrilling. By the time she reached her ultimate scene of terror and death, handsome U.S. Contralto Jean Madeira achieved a long-sought objective -to arrive at the top of the operatic heap...