Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Gimbels last week cleaned up an old powder-room joke to drive home an advertising point. In an ad in the New York Times for such labor-saving gimmicks as toasters and electric juicers, it showed a housewife stretched out in an armchair enjoying a television show. Advised Gimbels: "When housework is inevitable, relax and enjoy...
Under an overcast sky, Ike took his place on the Low Library steps-at the right hand of Frederic K. Coykendall, chairman of Columbia's trustees, who was enthroned on a great horsehair armchair that had once belonged to Ben Franklin. Four times Ike heard his praises (and Columbia's) loudly sung; each time he tipped his gold-tasseled mortarboard to the speaker. Then Chairman Coykendall surrendered to President Eisenhower the university charter, the keys and the horsehair throne. At that instant, as if on cue, the sun smiled through the clouds...
Dean Bender gave this appraisal of the present student last night on the first WHRV "Armchair Audit," a series of broadcasts devoted to talks by University professors and deans on their special subjects...
Dean Bender addresses the College at 9 p.m. tonight over WHRV in the first of a series of broadcasts entitled "Armchair Audits," He will speak for 55 minutes on current problems facing Harvard...
Subsequent Monday night "Armchair Audits" shows will present College professors giving their most popular lectures, the Network announced last night...