Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One-shotters make their biggest mark with personalities as subjects (Elvis Presley, Pope Pius XII, Billy Graham, Marilyn Monroe). But the bulk of them do well on hobbies and special guidance. Sample: Your Hair-Do, How to Buy Air Conditioning, Fix-It Yourself, Complete Guide for Young Marrieds. The magazines...
For Osborne, communications are both occupation and preoccupation. He started in the business as a boy, delivering Postal telegrams at 1? a message in New York City. When the U.S. entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The...
At a banquet during the Suez conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS), square-cut Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov turned up in a brand-new dinner jacket, set fellow diplomats and male fashion authorities to buzzing. A spokesman for Britain's dictatorial but often waggish Tailor and Cutter magazine...
When his plan came to light, the Civil Aeronautics Administration blinked, then decided that Jimmy's unguided missile would violate air regulations. The U.S. Army was more sympathetic, even offered to examine his do-it-yourself rocket at the massive Redstone Arsenal, center of its guided missile program.
The scene: a smoke-filled nook in the grill of Chicago's Democrat-bulged Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. Dining together are Kentucky's blackhorse presidential candidate, guffaw-prone Governor Albert B. ("Be lucky, go Happy!") Chandler, and Chicago's weighty Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey. Enter, with a dust...