Word: tulip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating coloratura; Holly's cigar-and-grammar-chomping onetime Hollywood agent, who says of her, "She isn't a phony because she's a real phony"; Holly's long-abandoned middle-aged hubby from Tulip, Texas, who reveals her unphony name (Lulamae Barnes) and wonders when she is coming home to him and their four "churren" (all by his previous marriage); and skads of Army and Navy officers...
...back on the Bois de Boulogne to avoid seeing the trees, furiously danced the Charleston (when The Netherlands banned it, he announced that he would never return home to Amsterdam). His ascetic dryness kept women at a distance. The only feminine touch in his studio was an artificial tulip, surrounded by leaves painted white...
...cages and legs going in different directions" is based on the design of a police street sign. By carefully calculating the base area of his new chair, he achieved the stability of four legs without weighting the bottom of the porcelain-enameled aluminum pedestal. The plastic seats are of tulip-shaped organic design, can have richly colored cushions to temper modern simplicity with elegance. The tables, in neutral colors, will be topped with marble or fine wood. Saarinen's new pieces are scheduled to go into mass production at Knoll Associates in September, will sell in the medium-price...
Died. Eugene Edward (Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset...
Michigan's gregarious Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams went Dutch to help the townfolk of Holland (pop. 15,858) celebrate their 26th annual Tulip Festival. Clogging among admirers on his wooden shoes, Soapy Williams obligingly got down on hands and knees, worked himself into a lather scrubbing the town's main street, later danced through an arch of arms with pretty Dawn Poppen. who will reach voting age in five years...