Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look. The customers who followed Ohrbach's uptown found a big change from the cluttered aisles and creaky flooring of the old store. The new Ohrbach's (actually the 47-year-old James McCreery department store, remodeled) sported carpets of grey and buff, walls of pastel pinks and blues, modern display cases, more try-on rooms. But nothing was changed in the business methods that have made Ohrbach's a phenomenon of U.S. merchandising...
...Mike and Buff's Mailbag (Thurs. 3:45 p.m., CBS). Eloise McElhone on husbands and wives at parties...
...cover a hundred pages with . . . fascinating cadavers." Writes Hecht nostalgically of those days: "That was happiness." The weakness of Hecht's armor was that it left him in sketchy underwear whenever he took it off. Like many an other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might...
...Manhattan, a buff-colored two-year-old cocker spaniel, Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine, owned by Mrs. Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student...
...fall registration each student is presented with two pastel-colored strips of cardboard, salmon for freshmen, buff for sophomores, pink for juniors, white for seniors and yellow for graduate students. On them he must write his name 13 times, his college address 11 times, home address nine times and telephone number seven times. In addition, he has to give his parent's or guardian's name four times and his marital status twice...