Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...step was springy, his shoulders squared, his eyes aglint with reminiscence as he strode on to the West Point parade ground to review the Corps of Cadets. He wore the inevitable dented grey hat, a grey suit with a Mack, gold and grey arm band, and a West Point medal surmounted by the name plate: EISENHOWER '15. Forty-four years before, "Eisenhower from Kansas, sir," the man in grey mufti had enrolled at West Point, class of 1915, after a couple of years' hard slogging at shocking grain, forking wild ponies and stoking fires at an Abilene creamery...
Most of the spring's activities centered around the Lampoon. After the Ibis had been annually stolen, the comic organization published its Tercentenary number, which was followed with threat of a suit from Boston Mayor James Curley...
Last week, when The Chocolate Soldier went on the air, Designer du Pont was on hand with a Flit gun. If any dress or suit was too bright or shiny for the TV cameras, he was there to spray it with liquid wax to dull the luster. As TV's top costume designer, Du Pont knows that there is a limit to how brilliant a dressmaker should be. That limit is reached when viewers start looking at the clothes rather than at the people wearing them...
...whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels worth $132,500, made partial payment with a $100,000 check that bounced. Unable to collect from Schlesinger, Van Cleef slapped a suit on Linda in an effort to get back the jewels...
Died. Daniel George van Beuningen, 78, retired Dutch businessman, famed as the owner of one of the great private art collections of Europe; of an embolism; in Arlesheim, Switzerland. To prove that the Last Supper in his collection was a genuine Vermeer, Van Beuningen brought suit in 1952 against famed Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans, who claimed that the picture was actually one of the fakes that Dutch Art Forger Hans van Meegeren started unloading on the European art market in the late 1930s. Van Beuningen died two days before the oft-postponed suit was to come to trial...