Word: classically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belgium, which fought her inflation with rigorous, classic financial methods, has made a rapid recovery, and it was quite a pleasure to see the familiar Esso trademark on the bright-red new gasoline stations going up on the main roads...
...muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy, but unseasoned three-year-old whom Calumet is getting ready for the fall stakes...
...Bizet made Carmen a classic, but Columbia is bent on making it literally a household word. Thanks to a staggering variety of studio tie-up deals with manufacturers of assorted items, the nation may soon be trying vainly to comb Carmen out of its hair. Already on the Carmen bandwagon as it begins to roll through retailers' showcases and advertising columns from coast to coast: shoes, handbags, cigarettes, hosiery, soap, cosmetics, hats, scarves, hair ornaments, castanets, costume jewelry. An impressive seller in its own right is the "Carmen doll" ($6.98); through 30,000 retailers, it piled...
...Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote at his death: "Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with classic symmetry of mind and body, he was all one could wish England's noblest sons...
...Hambletonian (Wed. 5:15 p.m., CBS). Joe Palmer's tape recorded description of the trotting classic from Goshen...