Word: velvet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressy skirts are always popular for the holiday season. There are full skirts of permanently pleated white nylon with bands of black velvet. There are circular wool skirts with embroidered designs. But slim skirts too have taken on the festive spirit. One sees straight velvet skirts, slim tweed skirts bejewelled with a scattering of rhinestones, tweeds with a raised knitted design...
...Velvet Touch...
...triumphant singing swing through Southeast Asia, velvet-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson has played to capacity houses at all stops, wowed audiences with her versatile concert program-German lieder, Italian classics...
...President ticked off the list of new U.S. weapons: missiles of all shapes and sizes for the Army, Navy and Air Force.* The jewel of his collection was on a red velvet coverlet near his desk as he spoke. It was the 4-ft. nose cone to an Army Jupiter missile. Said the President: "One difficult obstacle on the way to producing a useful long-range weapon is that of bringing a missile back from outer space without its burning up like a meteor . . . This object here in my office is the nose cone of an experimental missile...
Just how intelligent was apparent last week to dealers and art collectors, 4,100 of whom turned up in one day to preview the collection. Faced with more than 4,000 applications for tickets to the auction, Parke-Bernet sent out 850 for the main, velvet-draped salesroom, another 700 for side galleries, where for the first time at a U.S. auction bidders could view the works in black and white on closed-circuit TV, have their bids transmitted by loudspeaker. Forewarned of the expected crush, Millionaire Collectors Nelson Rockefeller and Winthrop Aldrich arrived 1½ hours early...