Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's M.P.s in the House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like corn crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite content...
...simply hurtled into the bass clef when a character tumbled downstairs. Columbia's The Bridge on the River Kwai, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold, skillfully melds its bellowing brasses and shivering strings with such traditional military airs as the Colonel Bogey March in a score long on pomp, short on circumstance. RCA Victor's Bonjour Tristesse, by French Composer Georges Auric-member of the sometime modernist group known as The Six*-offers the listener a deft American Express tour of the French psyche, is at its best when it cuts loose with some lowdown jazz...
...remarkable swimming ability made them favorites among hunters. Virtually all that today's show poodle has to remind it of its ancestors is an elaborate coiffure that once made sense. The luxuriant ruff left thick from head to hindquarters provided warmth when working outdoors in hunting weather. The short-shorn saddle over the rump and the shaven legs with bracelets of hair over hock and foot allowed the dog freedom of action while swimming and still provided necessary protection against heat and cold...
PASSING tests took place on a three-quarter-mile "highway." Contestants trailed a pace car to the 600-yd. "passing area," then pulled out and tried to pass in as short a distance as possible. Each man made three passes while the pace car was traveling at 30 m.p.h., three passes while the pace car traveled at 50 m.p.h. Proper highway distances between cars were marked off by a red flag towed behind the pace car and another flag on a bamboo pole sticking out in front...
...knows when the inventory slide will hit bottom. Yet the cuts have been so drastic that few businessmen think they can continue much longer. Steelmen, operating at less than 60% of capacity, are making so little steel that first-quarter production may actually fall some 5,000,000 tons short of consumption, even with the big drop in steel use in Detroit. January auto sales were the most disappointing since 1954 with only 381,000 new cars delivered-down 22.6% from December. Ford Motor Co., after record 1957 sales of $5.8 billion (with profits of $282 million...