Word: suntans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive and ambition -that we'll never quit. Bunk. I'm getting out. I'm tired of supporting lawyers and tax collectors." With that, Charles Rolley, 58, stepped down last week as president of Reno's Rolley Co., the nation's biggest maker of suntan lotion (its dollar-green Sea and Ski grosses some $12 million a year). A kinetic promoter, Rolley moved into lotions in 1947 on borrowed money, sold out to Botany Industries, Inc., for $2,000,000 in 1955, stayed on as boss. Now rich and seeking relaxation, Rolley has turned over...
Lowering High Jinks. Last fall the university decided to tackle its toughest problem: the fun-and-games atmosphere that attracted 5,000 students from outside sunny Florida (biggest out-of-state delegation: New York, with 1,300) and had earned Miami its nickname of Suntan U. The administration hired tough, grey-haired Robert Johns, director of the Illinois Commission on Higher Education, as its executive vice president, told him to crack down on student saturnalias...
...think we could develop into the strongest team Harvard's ever had," Fred Howard, the team captain, says. Howard, currently sporting a suntan as a result of the team's spring training trip to Puerto Rico, ran the half-mile in 1:52.0 last year to set the University record. He is one of four team members currently holding Harvard records. "Right now, we're a good team," he noted. "But with sufficient teamwork, we could become far more effective...
John Bouvier III was a swarthily handsome stockbroker who cut a dashing figure around New York and, because of his year-round suntan, was known variously as "Black Jack," "the Black Orchid" and "the Sheik." His marriage in East Hampton to Janet Lee, the handsome daughter of an indigo-blueblooded, wealthy (Manhattan real estate, banking) family, was a major event in the 1928 summer season. And just one year later, the Bouvier family doctor was summoned from Manhattan to preside at the birth of Jacqueline...
COCO became a fashion herself. Returning from the Riviera to Paris, her bronzed face launched the suntan vogue. One day she went to the races in a man's trench coat. The next week trench coats were the thing to wear...