Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herald Tribune's Women's Feature Editor Eugenia Sheppard sparked a short-lived rebellion by breaking a fashion story before press week. An emergency luncheon meeting of fashion editors and Couture Group representatives was held at "21," and the revolt ended after what Columnist Sheppard still recalls as "the time I was served up on toast...
Died. I.A.R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie, 74, prolific British writer of novels (17), short stories (200-odd), and a charming autobiography titled My Life with George, in which George is her subconscious; of a coronary thrombosis; in Princeton...
...Chrysler, already operating on a four-day week, will probably have to shut down completely by late November. American Motors expects to continue at its present high production rate. Studebaker-Packard also hopes to get by without any cutbacks. General Motors is just about shut down; the company is short all types of steel, has laid off 200,000 production workers and closed down all lines except limited production of Buicks, Corvairs and G.M. trucks and buses. G.M. estimates that it will be six weeks before the closed plants can be reopened, several more weeks before they...
...answer to that key question has long been a subject of controversy because most Government and private statistics do not take into account such factors as price rises, and because they are based on arbitrarily selected short periods of years. Last week the privately financed Committee for Economic Development announced a new set of charts called the Growth Reckoner, boldly designed to avoid the error possibilities inherent in most official U.S. statistics...
...recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley his due and his comeuppance too. If he remains as short of color as ever, he will at least be better understood...