Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reception-Mixer for the Hotel Imperial's championship All-Girl Juvenile softball team. At the Buddies Club, Boston Common, Saturday, 8 p.m. Wear your room-mate's ROTC uniform...
...phrase "rolling readjustment" popped up last week. Said the First National City Bank Letter: "The rise in the various parts of the economy is no longer uniform. Some sectors are expanding while a few contract. Some, like housing, may be nearing the end of their adjustment period. Others, like automobiles, are now in the adjustment process. In other lines, however, there are few indications of slackening, and some are still gaining. In short, another 'rolling readjustment' is under way. It is unlikely that autos and housing will carry the rest of the economy with them on the downturn...
Paralyzing Paint. A year after his triumph with the Boit children, Sargent sent another painting to the Salon, which had a different sort of success. His subject was the reigning beauty of the hour, one Madame Gautreau (see cut). Sargent confided to a friend that Madame was "a uniform lavender or blotting-paper color all over," but justly added that she had "the most beautiful lines." He painted her with the accent on her low neckline and produced a succes de scandale...
...bonnie Prince Charles, 7, along with five-year-old Princess Anne, in the tow of a royal nanny, rummaged about a gift shop "to buy a secret Christmas present for Mummy." His gift for Queen Elizabeth II: a miniature watercolor of Mummy herself, caparisoned in the full-dress uniform of a colonel of the Grenadier Guards, sitting sidesaddle on a chestnut horse named Winston. Among the little Princess' selections: a watercolor showing her namesake, Queen Anne, attending the Ascot Races some 250 years...
When World War II ended, Dr. Homer V. Bradshaw took off the uniform he had worn as a medical officer with General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, returned with his wife to his work at the Presbyterian mission at Lienhsien in China's Kwangtung province. At that time the Bradshaws, medical missionaries in China for 13 years, were 47-strong, healthy, and hopeful that they would be able to go on serving the country they loved. Last week the Bradshaws left China, the latest in the long line of returning missionaries whose pitiable condition told the world...