Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work. His pitch might run from "Please play this song-if only to ease the pain of my ulcers" to "What prizefight or show would you like to see?" Although such a plugger was usually no musician, he was blood brother to the tired-looking gent behind music-store counters, pumping out sheet music on the piano...
Dress Designer Elizabeth Hawes once Held that feminine fashion is spinach and said to hell with it. Gimbels' Manhattan department store holds that the crop has since changed. Until recently, it said in its ads, fashion was an onion; now it is a carrot. "Women have variously looked like hour-glasses, test-tubes, snakes, string-beans, pincushions, fiddles, pyramids and in one supreme burst of misguided effort, men. But lately things have been pretty undrastic. Until now, that is. Now the fashion silhouette has been stood on its head. The little-top-and-full skirt (or onion look...
...Take off ceilings on pre-1946 automobiles, on most department-store merchandise, meats, restaurant meals and drinks, and furniture (but to keep, for the moment, ceilings on major electrical and gas appliances, drugs and cosmetics, bakery products, milk and cereal...
...Liga (Champ Butler; Columbia). A spirited hillbilly song about a cigar-store Indian who hides his longings beneath a wooden exterior. In the back ground, a quartet grunts...
...fizz back in is effervescent Eric Hooper, 60. Trained as a botanist, Hooper "wandered about for a time," met Department Store Magnate Frederick James Marquis, now Lord Woolton, and went to work for him without knowing what business Woolton was in. "When I showed up and found it was a shop," says Hooper, "I was absolutely horrified...