Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of this problem is, obviously, Frank Sinatra, and in the space of three-quarters of an hour, he shows, with the active cooperation of his audience, what may happen when this younger generation finally takes over--and the possible developments are truly awe-inspiring...
...President. He said: "I can't picture Willkie riding in an automobile with the top down, and being protected by a gang of Secret Service men." I was suddenly aware of the fact that for this 16-year-old, as for other thousands of his age and younger, the Secret Service guards, the White House, the President and the Star-Spangled Banner had always been associated with only one man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Younger men are moving into captaincies as the fleet has expanded-and as heroic veterans have disappeared. Result: not all submarine commanders have the grey hair prized by the Navy as the true mark of maturity...
Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...
...simple advertisingman's formula: bring together people who want to buy something and people who want to sell. That the formula was successful is evident in the roll call of Condé Nast products. Today C. N. Publications mothers, besides Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour (fashions for the younger set), British Vogue, the Vogue Pattern Book, Vogue patterns, Hollywood patterns. A French edition was suspended in 1940 when the Germans got within gunshot of Paris...