Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even. In Kankakee, Ill., Doris Keller dramatically tried to get even with her husband for blackening her eye, succeeded only in getting sick when her solid base of beers neutralized the poison she swallowed...
...that Evelyn is a looker. She stands a solid 6 ft. in heels and hairdo, looks a well-seasoned 30 even in kindly after-dinner light. But as she drifts regally between tight-packed tables, cased in her working harness (a high-necked, pink-&-blue job by Sophie of Saks, encrusted from top to toe with 20 pounds of bead-work), Evelyn suggests a youthful Magda Lupescu. And when she finds a suitable ringside male, she manages to convey, crooning to the poor Joe from a good six feet off, that she is twisting her fingers in his hair...
...outstretched hands of Christendom's churches are still a long way from meeting in a solid clasp of friendship. But nowhere in Europe do so many fingers touch each other as at the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute. Founded last year (TIME, May 20) as part of a $6,000,000 program to reconstruct European religious life, the Institute is financed largely by U.S. church members.* It has already been in operation for six months, has sent 73 men & women back to their homelands with broader Christian perspectives and more international Christian ties...
Building with Dabs. Cézanne has a lot of bad drawing besides his own to answer for. The 19th Century's conscientious master did more than any other artist to make awkward drawing, dabs, distortion, and the fracturing of space fashionable in the 20th. Glimpsing a solid geometry in nature, Cézanne spent most of his life trying to apply it to art. Seen close up, his later paintings, such as Gardanne (see cut), look like Cubist abstractions and were, in fact, the point at which Cubism first left the world behind...
...University of Michigan, the pro-capitalists gave leftists a lesson in infiltration. The university had approved a petition for a campus Karl Marx society. At the first meeting, the 25 Marxist petitioners were delighted by a turnout of 150. But when it came time for elections, a solid wedge of the new recruits-conservatives from the School of Business Administration-put up their own slate. Explained new President Elmer Faust: "We Business Administration students are very interested in Marxism...