Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen pretty girls brought their carefully catalogued charms and mountains of luggage to London last week and, in a polyglot babel of perfumed chatter, settled into a once-quiet, family-type hotel just off the Strand. One of them was destined to become Miss World...
Only a generation ago, anemia was both a common and a fashionable complaint. It was good for endless speculative chatter, because doctors understood little about it, and nearly every patient had his (or more often her) favorite patent nostrum. Last week, Salt Lake City's Dr. Maxwell Myer Wintrobe told a Manhattan audience of doctors how drastically the anemia story has changed in a mere three decades...
...show "extraordinary people doing ordinary things" gives the program possibilities, the first show suggested that aimlessness and a degree of silliness, e.g., Murrow's asking Stokowski whether his piano was in tune, might be the cost of its unrehearsed spontaneity. Biggest danger: sacrificing thoughtful conversation to idle chatter about furnishings and other things in sight. Sponsors: Amoco and Hamm Brewing...
...ideas of western man. Lighting on original texts, the student has just begun to sip the nectar when he is driven off on a different track. Anticipating the probable requirements of an educated business man in a literate world, the Core courses prepare Colgate men for cocktail party chatter, arming them with a general knowledge of comprehensive fields. For instance, the catalogue lists Core 10, the literature course prescribed for Juniors, as seeking "primarily to develop in the student the intelligent enjoyment of literature...
Kreis is now trying to lure Hollywood columnists to his drugstore. Gossipist Sheilah Graham is a regular (from Chatter: "Sheilah Graham quietly dining with friends, never missing a trick"). Though Columnist Skolsky shows up occasionally (seductive Chatter item: "Sid Skolsky in again, and what a sweet guy that is"), he remains loyal to Schwab's. Meanwhile, Leon Schwab is taking his competition calmly. Says he: "They're just an imitation. They're getting our overflow. We wish them the best of luck...