Word: swivelings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week easy, unpretentious Herbert Brownell was getting straight to the point as head of the mighty U.S. Department of Justice. Sitting in his red leather swivel chair with his left knee drawn up, his foot planted on the seat, his long, thin hands dangling, he seemed as relaxed as a ballplayer in midwinter. With his customary calm, he was facing tremendously important decisions on Communism, corruption, crime and the gamut of vital issues affecting the people of the U.S. The success of the Eisenhower Administration depends in large part on how well Brownell does...
...fact, he does not need to. He gets his exercise in his office, where he can't sit still. "It gives me hydrophobia," he says. While dictating, talking, or just thinking, Jacobsen paces swiftly back & forth for hours on end, moving so fast that visitors have to swivel their heads to keep him in view -like watching the ball in a tennis match. When Jacobsen gets really interested in conversation, he paces in a big, swooping circle, walking right around visitors. They usually stop trying to swivel around with him, just sit still and catch him each time...
...Berlin, 9,000 jazz fans crowded into Berlin's Sportspalast for the annual German jitterbug championship, watched husky Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while...
Marriage Revealed. Henry Jacques Gaisman, 82, wealthy inventor (swivel chairs, razors, men's belts) and retired chairman of the board (since 1938) of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; and his former nurse, Catherine Vance, 33; both for the first time; last month, in Hartsdale...
From a distance, the big A-cannon assembly looks like a loaded railroad flatcar, with engine cabs at both ends. When it is ready to leave the road to go into action, the two cabs rev up to a deafening roar and swivel around to push the flatcar sideways (see cut) across the terrain to firing position. Once in position, the cabs help lower the gun bed to the ground and then pull out from under...