Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the nicest compliment Savo Radulovic ever got was a letter from a suburban housewife who came to see his paintings in a Philadelphia gallery last week. Before her visit, the lady wrote, her greatest ambition was to have "a mink stole and a sterling silver coffee service." Now, she would rather own a Radulovic...
...some time. I saw a quiz show and the contestant lost the jackpot because he hadn't read a book." "Who wants to read, Miss Hall? It makes you feel petunia."* ¶Amid a cloud of complaints about inflation, the University of Wisconsin found a sliver of a silver lining: diplomas, which cost 55? in 1949, 43?in 1950 and 36? in 1952, have hit a new low-32?. ¶Appointments of the week: Psychologist Nils Y. Wessell, 39. acting president of Tufts College, to succeed Leonard Carmichael as Tufts' full-fledged president; American Historian Owen Meredith Wilson...
...darkroom widow waiting at home. He lies on his belly in the snow of the Rockies, prowls the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, gets drenched in an inland lake, and hangs from ladders, chasing-with a hunter's relentless zeal-the fleeting moment, to trap it on the silver-coated strip of paper...
...sentimentality. For the most part, the camera modestly keeps its eye on Joey, and. except for a few embarrassing attempts to set him off in pathetic or tragic frames, looks at him calmly, with restraint and without cuteness. At the 1953 Film Festival in Venice, the picture won the Silver Lion, one of the six top awards...
...Have Mercler on us Little man," the foxy silver-haired fellow said. "We didn't come down here by Carr, and we don't expect to go back to Jordan...