Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a singer really sends them, Japanese lowteens (13-to 16-year-olds) hurl colored paper streamers onstage, and many of them practice at home to improve their marksmanship. Those who cannot afford streamers have taken to looting department-store powder rooms of rolls of toilet paper on which they scribble lipsticked love messages, such as daite ageru wayo (I shall hold you), before sending the tissue arching over the footlights. The top rockabilly stars-Masaaki Hirao, 20; Keijiro Yamashita, 19; Micky Curtis, 18, the son of an English father and an English-Japanese mother-wear flame-red shirts, rose...
...free as the wind in the fields. There, last week, Robert Smith, 12, and his brother David, 10, got home from Sunday school at the United Brethren Church, ate their lunch and set out together for the movies. On the way, Robert broke into a local surplus supply store, stole four .22-cal. pistols...
Robbin' Hoods. In Bluefield, Va., thieves cracked a supermarket safe, filled the store's heart fund container with dimes, left with the remaining...
After a visit to the tomb of Lenin and Stalin in Red Square, Hope cracked: "It wasn't a bad show, but what do they do for an encore?" On shopping at the GUM department store: "The men look like they're wearing George Raft's old suits. The women, of course, are more in style. They've been wearing sack dresses for years." On watching voters in the U.S.S.R.'s one-party election: "Let's hurry back to the hotel and get the first returns." On drinking vodka: "Now I know why they...
...onetime speechwriter for the New York World's Fair, he began his advertising career with the old William Weintraub agency, became a vice president of Grey Advertising in 1945. There, while working on the account of Ohrbach's, a low-priced Manhattan and Los Angeles department store, he stressed sophistication instead of price with the eyecatching illustration and a minimum of copy that later became his trademark, e.g., Ohrbach's recent cat ad (TIME, March 17). But Bill Bernbach found his style crimped by conventional ad concepts. He left Grey in 1949 to form his own agency...