Word: stork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing is that Author Ruark seems to share that good opinion. "Cash" Price, the coldhearted moneyman, has most of the personal characteristics (villainy aside) of Robert Ruark himself: a fondness for Brioni suits, Peal's boots and Joe Bushkin's piano playing; a distaste for the Stork Club and ladylike male authors. Can such a man be altogether...
...acidulous prime, Gossipmonger Walter Winchell stood second to no columnist for journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people...
...Tricks. Both American Express and Diners' furiously scouted out and signed up new services. American Express won a hand by signing Manhattan's Toots Shor restaurant, long a credit-card holdout. Diners' bounced right back by announcing a contract with the Stork Club, another holdout. American Express then scored by adding a galaxy of nonrestaurant services: Western Union, Greyhound Bus, Avis and Hertz car rentals, Kinney Parking Systems, Kelly Girls for temporary office help. Amexco spread the word that in any of its 303 international offices, a cardholder could charge a ticket or tour to any spot...
...Hollywood, where no approaching stork goes long undetected by the heir-spotting magpies, Actor Pau! Newman and his Oscar-winning wife Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) admitted it was true: face number three will arrive in April...
...prosperity curve follows right alongside the population curve; 2) family income, even after taxes, is at an alltime high of $5,300, is expected to pass $7,000 by 1975, and individual savings are at a record level of $340 billion. Among the ads: the picture of a stork perched on its nest to illustrate population growth ("This Bird Means Business"), a shot of a homeowner on the site of his new house ("There's a New Wave of Opportunity Coming...