Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman still looks trim and cocky during public appearances, still gets up early enough to work before breakfast. But except on rare occasions, his famed two-mile morning hikes are now a thing of the past-abandoned under the stress of White House toil, and at the urging of White House physician General Wallace Graham to get the President to sleep a little later in the morning. Last week sharp-eyed reporters noted another alteration in the President's personal routine-after years of folding his breast-pocket handkerchief so that four geometrically perfect points protruded, he appeared...
Such captions would look long-winded in today's New Yorker, but they were standard for its first jokes in 1925. Then Editor Harold Ross learned to trim the words and let the picture do its share. His one-line caption cartoons have set the style of U.S. humor in the last two decades. This week, in The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, the magazine took a lingering backward glance at the fun it has had with the nation's manners & morals, from the speakeasy era to the atomic age. It also sketches the line U.S. humor...
...enormously expensive. Recently, Swensrud launched Gulf on the biggest wildcat hunt in the U.S., exploring 800,000 acres leased from the State of Mississippi.* Gulf may well sink millions without result. But Swensrud is not perturbed. Gulf, a pioneer in the science of petroleum geophysics, has helped trim the odds against finding oil from 15-to-1 to a mere 5-to-1. To an oilman, that's a good...
...answer to an unusual mid-morning summons, 17 reporters trotted upstairs from the Pentagon pressroom to the Secretary of Defense's third-floor office. They found George Catlett Marshall, trim in a blue-grey double-breasted suit and dark tie, smiling genially. He waved them to seats, crossed one leg over the other, and he broke his well-kept secret: "My resignation as Secretary of Defense takes effect...
Such quick and sensible answers are always available from Editor Littledale of Parents' Magazine, a trim little 60-year-old woman who doesn't "like the idea of an inaccessible editor." This week, accessible Editor Littledale put out the 25th-anniversary issue (198 pages) of the monthly she had helped to found. In its quarter century, she had made prosperous Parents' the soundest, bestselling guide (circ. 1,250,000) to the care & feeding of U.S. small...