Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly seems to miss Howdy Doody, Fulton J. Sheen, Milton Berle or Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. But then there is Dave Garroway. Rising out of Chicago in the late 1940s, he blazed the interview show trail with a questing curiosity, melodious baritone voice, quiet manner, and a mind like spun glass-intricate but clear. Plus, of course, thick-rimmed glasses that gave a whole generation of imitators that owlish look. After 1961, when he felt compelled to quit because of his wife's death, he became just a memory. Yet even today, when a videophile hears...
...into an asset. His agency now bills an estimated $1.5 million a year from accounts that include Kent, Newport and True cigarettes, Wayne-Gossard Corp. and the Joe Louis Milk Co. His ads are characterized by what he calls "a pride in being black." One magazine layout for Afro-Sheen, a hair preparation that is supposed to enhance the natural, curly look, carries the headline: "A beautiful new product for a beautiful new people." That is quite a change from the wording of older ads for cosmetics intended to bleach skin and straighten hair...
...encouraged his attempts at poetry and nourished his susceptibility to sound and color. Mother and son shared a strong sense that certain colors and certain letters of the alphabet are related?p was an unripe apple green, for instance; y's and u's had a brassy "olive sheen." Matching colors and letters, Nabokov evolved a new private word, Kzspygv, which meant but did not spell "rainbow...
...appears that this impressive record may lose some of its sheen. The reasons, reported by LIFE this week following extensive investigation, are two. Rhodes commuted the life sentence of a major Mafia mobster early this year, ostensibly because of age, ill health and good behavior. And for years, Rhodes has been using political campaign funds for his own personal purposes. Special Favors. The Mafia character is Yonnie Licavoli, now 65, who has been running Toledo numbers rackets by long distance and raking in underworld income from Detroit and else where- all the while reposing in his cell at the Ohio...
...Casey Stengel, 77, recovering in Glendale, Calif, from major surgery for a perforated peptic ulcer; Lawyer Percy Foreman, 66, in Houston with a case of pneumonia that could prevent him from preparing the defense of James Earl Ray in time for the March 3 trial opening; Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 73, resting in Rochester, N.Y., after slipping on an icy sidewalk and breaking his left arm; Admiral John S. McCain, 58, commander of U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, in Honolulu's Tripler Army Hospital after suffering what doctors described as a mild stroke...