Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Guest of honor at a Manhattan exhibition of her late husband's pompadoured beauties: Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, 77. Dressed in a trim dark suit draped with orchids, the "Original Gibson Girl" posed before a portrait drawn of her half a century...
...seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut, from Gibson Girl curls to Marie Antoinette birdcage, in one working...
...changing the name to Hoffman Radio to avoid confusion with Mission Bell Wine). But Hoffman did not get a chance to make many radios then. World War II made him, instead, the world's largest manufacturer of kites. He turned out 300,000 "antenna-hoisters" used for the "Gibson Girl" transmitters installed on life rafts. He had two plants and was grossing $4,200,000 at war's end, when he finally got his chance for big-scale manufacture of radio & television sets. It was the right time; the TV boom was just starting...
University Professor Edwin J. Cohn led a team of scientists in development of the new separation processes. Other Harvard scientists on the project were Edward S. Buckley, Jr., Maurice D'Hont, John G. Gibson, and Carl Walter...
Last year the band started off at the Savoy with the trumpet played by 20-year-old. Tufts graduate Paul Gibson, whom Gifford calls "the best jazz trumpeter this side of New York." Then they branched out. They went twice to Smith College (Gifford is carried away by the memory where 200 girls in sweat shirts and dungarees sat in a semicircle and shrieked for the real oldtimers like "Coal Cart Blues" (an Armstrong standby). And they found another faculty supporter in Roy Lamson, Jr. '29 clarinet-playing professor of Sociology at Williams...