Word: wigwags
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...unhappy quartet hope to publish again. Business Week suspended Assets, its magazine of personal finance and life-style, after two issues, promising to revive it when the economy improves. Wigwag, which took a small- town view of life in America, flourished editorially but announced it had to take a pause as it searched for new investors...
...Italian glass tile. The shell walls surround a living room with a fireplace in its own enclosed area, a dining room large enough for twelve, a skylighted kitchen, a master bedroom with two baths, a sitting room, and a penthouse study for the doctor. From here, he can wigwag through the skylight into the kitchen when he is ready for lunch. There is also a separate guest house that can accommodate six when the occasion arises...
Britain's immaculate Tailor and Cutter Magazine surveyed the international scene, issued a list of the world's best-dressed males. Among them: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito ("the ritziest looking dictator in the world"), Richard Nixon ("a neat line between the wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian...
Continental, said Estes Kefauver, is "Public Enemy No. i." It has a monopoly on the transmission of minute-by-minute information from local race tracks to bookies throughout the country. Through distributors which the committee branded dummies, it gets its news by wigwag or telephone from the tracks, flashes it by Western Union teletype throughout the country. It supplies last-minute news on track conditions, horses scratched, changes in jockeys, last-minute odds at the parimutuel windows. Big-time bookies must have it to lay off bets when a "hot" horse gets a dangerously high play, to get the results...
...Wilson had previously made such an offer with the proviso that the man give the job his full time, but Labor had turned a cold shoulder. A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal...