Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after the book had been distributed store executives began asking if they could use the material for window displays. TIME'S Merchandising Director, Stuart Powers, and his staff worked five of the TIME readers' coats of arms into displays for men's stores. (You can see them this month in some 200 stores across the U.S.) Cluett-Peabody, makers of Arrow shirts, ties, etc., heard about the displays and asked us for permission to use 15 of the coats of arms as designs for a new line of "heraldic neckwear...
...thousands of his Communist-line followers. Both sides were looking for trouble: some of the concertgoers, carefully organized and briefed by their Communist leaders, came equipped with baseball bats; veterans and their sympathizers ambushed departing cars, bombarded them with sticks and heavy stones. Twenty-five buses had every window broken, eight cars were overturned, 145 people were hurt. Westchester County authorities blamed "teen-agers," commended the 904 policemen for preventing "mass killings." But the police, for all their numbers, flopped dismally and some seemed hardly interested in preserving order. One cop, reporting a brush with a Robesonite carload, announced proudly...
...Press Attache Joseph Kolarek explained the change. A Czech Foreign Office official had called him up and said: "Mindszenty is a criminal. Having his picture in the window is an unfriendly gesture to Czechoslovakia...
...student at St. Charles-Borromee Seminary, a bilingual (French-English) college in Sherbrooke. Because seminary discipline kept him indoors on election night, St. Laurent plotted with an outsider to bring election returns from the local newspaper office and tie them to a string dropped from his dormitory window...
...Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...