Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They attended three Chamber of Commerce dinners and a Kiwanis lunch, spent a night at the Kozy Korner Motel in Humboldt, played the jukebox, window-shopped, chewed gum, tried "Tummy Buster" and "Idiot's Delight" sundaes at the Milky Way Dairy in Oskaloosa, "the middle of the Middle West...
...Swiss took down the flags that had decorated the city, and there seemed something symbolic about their action. But Ike Eisenhower, undaunted, went on injecting human relations into international relations. Never had the U.S. had a finer ambassador. He broke through the security cordon around him, and, to the delight of passersby, plunged unheralded into a toy store "to buy something for my kids"-meaning his three grandchildren. Rejecting some boy dolls ("My little girls don't want boy dolls"), he picked three girl dolls, plus a model glider for young David, plunged out of the store gesturing...
Actor Ryan is smooth and businesslike, and Stack is competent. Next to the view, though, the biggest delight is Japan's picture-book beauty Shirley Yamaguchi, who plays Stack's "kimono" (i.e., moll); she has all the fluid rhythm of a ripple in a pond...
...Romans are enjoying a siesta, sees nothing but empty tables or exhausted fellow tourists. But just before lunch, in the late afternoon, or from 10 at night until early morning, the Via Veneto becomes a lively circus of Rome's most colorful characters, and a gawker's delight. Last week its season was at its height...
Hungry Seagulls. Hirshhorn's random net inevitably scoops up many second-rate paintings, but it also snares some splendid ones. Among his finest recent purchases is Philip Evergood's American Shrimp Girl (opposite). One of the most versatile draftsmen alive, Evergood took obvious delight in depicting the hungry seagulls that circle the girl's head, and contrasting their eager grace with the girl's heavy-limbed, foursquare pose...