Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the chignon, first popular in France in the 18305,* was staging a triumphant comeback in Manhattan. On its cover, LIFE had run a glamorous photograph of TV Star Faye Emerson with chignon. The fashion magazines were embracing the false buns, braids and curls with the ecstatic gushes and gurgles which seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut...
...President had hardly got back to Washington from his long Pacific tour before he was on the road again; this time on a sleeper jump to Long Island to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the United Nations. He made no triumphant entry into Manhattan, thus avoiding an official greeting by Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the backslid Democrat. Instead, his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan, crossed Manhattan Island underground during the night and was sidetracked at Belmont Race Track. At 6:45 the President went out for a fast walk through the neighborhood. He looked rested and relaxed when...
High Sheen. For once, everybody agreed with the Russians. In five years of rebuilding, chiefly under Conductor Josef Krips (who was barred from the U.S. last summer-TIME, July 31), Vienna's State Opera had made a triumphant comeback...
...over, as anyone who has been following recent war news can see. Republicans still keep shouting "corruption and Korea," but with the nation cheering victories, the listening public has suddenly become less attentive. Louis Johnson is gone, and President Truman has flown to Wake Island to meet the triumphant General MacArthur. For the Administration the timing of everything could scarcely have been better...
...movie shows the swift rise of young Broadway Actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) from a stagestruck unknown to an adulated star. She is seen first at her most triumphant moment, as the theater's elite prepare to honor her with their highest prize for acting. Then, in flashbacks introduced with narration by three different characters, the story of Eve's success proves her less a Cinderella than a Lady Macbeth...