Word: leatherizing
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...generally conceded that the TV industry had done a good, workmanlike job. But some critics worried about hippodrome tendencies, e.g., when WPIX Commentator Harry Brundidge, at the end of Frank Costello's testimony, rushed to the witness stand and begged the leather-faced Costello to smile for the TV audience, the TV cameras left the Senate committee high & dry until Costello graciously obliged. That the committee itself felt some uneasiness was indicated this week when Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley suggested that the Senate Rules Committee make a thorough study of the question of televising congressional proceedings...
...coming vacation at Key West and that bright Florida sunshine had brought him back to bubbling good humor. Brisk and smiling, he waded through a man-killing schedule, clearing his desk for the big day. He went on television with a plea for the Red Cross campaign, accepted a leather-bound manuscript on "How to Be Prepared" from three bright-eyed little Girl Scouts, saw a group of Negro leaders, shook hands with oldtime Socialist Norman Thomas, and brushed off his weekly press conference in 13 minutes with a record burst of no comments...
Chinese amahs who never before had permanents have them now. Pedicab drivers who used to be barefoot are sporting new, all-leather sandals. The pith helmet is no longer the hallmark of the pukka imperialist; the helmets, many of them carefully coated with aluminum, gilt or yellow paint, sit grandly atop the heads of coolies. These days an Englishman would rather walk into the lobby of the Raffles Hotel without trousers than be caught wearing a pith helmet...
...experimental "dream car," the two-seater convertible XP-300, was unveiled at Chicago's auto show last week. Designed by General Motors' Chief Engineer Charles A. Chayne, the car has an aluminum body only 39 inches high at the cowl (53.4 in. with the top up), blue leather seats, safety belts, padded crash board, hydraulic engine hood and jacks. The engine is a supercharged 300-h.p. V-8 which weighs only 500 lbs. (250 lbs. less than Buick's current 152-h.p. engine), and runs at high speeds on a mixture of alcohol and gasoline fed from...
Growing Pains. The airlines' early passengers were a hardy lot. Bundled in leather flying suits and fur-lined helmets, they rode singly in open de Havilland4 cockpits atop piles of mail sacks, or cramped side by side in a cubbyhole in front of the pilot of the Boeing...