Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon girls and the two youngest Kefauver girls go to the same public school, Nancy Kefauver and Pat Nixon shop in the same neighborhood stores, belong to the same P.T.A. chapter.) Kefauver also went to Farnsworth-Reed Ltd., an exclusive 17th Street custom shop, bought a blue suit and a grey suit, discovered that his campaign exertions had reduced his waistline from 41 to 39 in. and his collar size from...
Most tourists who step off the boat in Honolulu slip into a bathing suit and make straightway for Waikiki beach to lie in the sun. But not Henry J. Kaiser, 74. As a vacationing tourist two years ago, he took one look at Waikiki beach and decided things could be improved. Said Kaiser : "I figure just about everybody wants to travel to Hawaii, but facilities have not kept pace." Since then, Pacesetter Kaiser (29 Kaiser companies, $775 million in annual sales) has been having the time of his life playing with his newest toy, a multimillion-dollar playground called Hawaiian...
Bongo Bongo. Dressed sometimes in a business suit, sometimes in a gay sports shirt and slacks, Henry Kaiser charges all over his 18-acre resort to make decisions and supervise projects personally. Blue prints in hand, he pursues carpenters up scaffolds, sets deadlines for each project and sees to it that they are met. He even participates in floorshow rehearsals, is not above taking a turn at the bongo drums...
Three months later the true robbers were caught and Lyon was released on bail. He lived under a cloud for seven long years, finally brought suit for malicious prosecution against his accusers, and won $9,000 damages. With his new wealth, Lyon went to one of the most fashionable painters in town and commissioned a portrait. He had no wish to be portrayed as a gentleman, he informed the startled John Neagle, but as a workingman. Yet the canvas must be splendid. It must show him lifesize, laboring honestly at his forge. And in the background must be seen...
Died. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli Willson, 46, who as a meaty teen-ager (15 years, 163 Ibs.) married (1926) sack-shaped moneybags Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, 51, six months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy (a "grey-haired old wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died...