Word: inks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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McCarthy's iron will and lordly tastes are reflected by other aspects of the hotel. There is the color scheme, for instance, which boasts 63 different shades of green and encompasses walls, rugs, the bellhops' emerald & lemon uniforms and the grass-hued ink with which guests sign the register. McCarthy makes all public announcements concerning the hotel (George Lindholm, whom he hired away from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria as manager, resigned quietly last week...
Points are scored in that branch of the sport when a fencer hits any part of his opponents body. Previously, red ink had been used on the sword tips to indicate hits, but there was often uncertainty in close action as to which man made the first...
...some 17,000 names were carefully set down by Hague's 311 district leaders, with appropriate comments by gumshoeing ward heelers. The name of every city, state and county employee was underlined in red ink. Devoted Democrats on the approved list were ticked off with a terse "O.K." Waverers were put on the list for attention: "Need tax reduction here when, possible." But anyone rash enough to buck the machine got more extensive treatment...
Like the pre-publication dummy (TIME, Sept. 12), Flair's Vol. I, No. 1 was full of tricks. Samples: a "window" in the cover permitting a partial view of the next page, an accordion foldout, a page of Fleur's own self-assured handwriting in gold ink on blue paper, pages of odd sizes and varied textures. To readers familiar with Fleur's wearing of a rose as a trademark, Flair's frontispiece was the most Fleurish -and Freudian-touch of all: it was a reproduction of Girl with Roses by Artist Lucian Freud, grandson...
...that many of the individual scenes aren't funny. Chief among these is a takeoff of the Ink Spots in which Kaye sings all four parts in different voice ranges and in four separate bodies at the same time...