Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening day last week, stocky Builder Oddstad watched the children streaming into his school with obvious delight. "This is the thing to do," said he. "It's up to builders to take the initiative." Near by, under the school's breezeway, Mrs. Robert Blomberg finally broke away from her weeping five-year-old daughter Kathlene. Said Mrs. Blomberg: "She's been dreaming of nothing but school for weeks. Now all she can say is, 'I want to go home.' " An hour later, tears dry, Kathlene was happily drawing her first picture in kindergarten. An unorthodox...
...Here) Reynolds, 22, floated off a plane from Hollywood at New York's International Airport and into the open arms and bashful buss of Crooner Eddie (I Need You Now) Fisher, 26. The combination of wholesome young love and two stirring success stories was a nation's delight. Daughter of a railroad carpenter, Debbie got into movies in 1948 when a talent scout spotted her wearing a holey bathing suit in a Burbank (Calif.) beauty contest (her family couldn't afford new clothes for her). She not only attained a ripe age (for Hollywood) without marrying anybody...
Because the Senate committee decided not to face up to the ethical and political problems, the case, to the delight of Democrats, will be in the lap of embarrassed Republicans right up to the November elections. Republican Senators know this, but Sergeant Friday's influence is too strong. All they want is the facts...
Fainting Ladies. Despite the fact that Albert Hall's atrocious acoustics muffled all but the most brilliant passages-and the BBC Symphony muffed some of those-the crowd whooped and stamped its delight as it has done through the years. There were some changes from the early days. Queen's Hall, original home of the proms, was bombed during World War II. But Albert Hall, 83 years old and monstrously big (10,000 capacity), took over one of the old building's most beloved attractions: a jetting fountain in the center of the arena floor. Refreshments...
...biggest fashion change since the time seven years ago when the same Christian Dior decreed the "New Look." The news was calculated to alarm housewives, delight dress merchants and throw husbands into mumbling despondency. For no amount of patching, mending or letting out, trimming, tacking or tucking, no gusset, gore, or gather could make last year's dress into this fall's Dior mode. In upstairs closets from Spokane to Athens, Copenhagen to Rome, millions of dresses would suddenly become "that old thing," their value destroyed with a swiftness and efficiency that no moth could hope to match...