Word: feather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vienna Opera as a child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For a time he worked in Manhattan in a millinery house, where he was assigned to the ostrich-feather department. Before long, Marek gave up feathers for advertising, became a vice president of the J. D. Tarcher Agency, spent his days writing copy (Coty, Smith Bros.) and his nights as the regular music critic of Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. In 1950 he made a pitch for the advertising...
...future star when he moved up to the varsity. Last week the Big Ten finally got its first look at the most impressive basketball prospect since "The Stilt" himself: Sophomore Jerry ("Big Luke"), Lucas, 19, a solemn, smoothly muscled (6 ft. 7½ in., 228 Ibs.) youngster with a feather-soft hook shot in either hand...
...major issue in the strike will not be wages but work rules. The Association of American Railroads--one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington--has started a nation-wide advertising campagin deploring the amount of feather-bedding throughout the nation. "Let us change the outdated work rules," the A.A.R. says, "and we can save $500 million per year, thus letting us compete more effectively and serve more efficiently...
Only on major cold-war issues does Latin America usually side with the U.S. -and even then there is always the temptation to pluck a feather from the eagle. Example: admission to the U.N. of Red China, which has been staging a major propaganda drive across Latin America (TIME, July 27). Last month Cuban Delegate Manuel Bisbe made the first open gesture by abstaining from backing the block-Red China bloc. Now Brazil's U.N. delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, blusters that "popular outcry in our countries is becoming so strong on the Red China issue that we may soon...
...white feather hat and a gleaming brocade coat, Britain's Dame Edith Sitwell, 72, gave a poetry recital at Edinburgh. Part of the audience could not make out what she was saying; someone politely said so. "Get a hearing aid." said Dame Edith, "I am not going to shout." Someone else complained that her notes were obscuring her face. "You won't like it if you do see it," she promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks...