Word: looking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...them wore gray flannel suits, one wore gray flannel pants and a sport coat, and one wore gray flannel pants and a raincoat. They chose these garments, they said, so they would look as though they belonged in Eliot House. Three of the four smoked pipes...
Roosevelt in Retrospect was a fast, typical John Gunther look at F.D.R.; Louis Fischer looked longer at Gandhi but had more trouble trying to tell what he thought he saw, in his slogging, monotonous Life of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the year's best biographies was Amy Kelly's scholarly and readable Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings; another was Yale Professor Roland Bainton's exhaustive life of Protestant Martin Luther, Here I Stand. Louise Hall Tharp, a writing housewife, dared to try a delicate job and brought it off successfully in a spirited three-woman...
...Lincoln, which examined as if for the first time the crucial years 1857-61. Stewart Holbrook had the fine idea of tracking down the pioneers whose home towns were in New England, and produced a fascinating piece of Americana in The Yankee Exodus, while John Bakeless reproduced the look of the country as its first explorers saw it in The Eyes of Discovery. Civil War fans got their richest informal serving in years in Henry Steele Commager's The Blue and the Gray, a feast of documentary evidence from actual participants on both sides, military and civilian...
...Baby, by Simon & Schuster editors Look Younger, Live Longer, by Gayelord Hauser...
President Charles W. Cole of Amherst, one of the leaders of growing opposition to President Conant's plan for Universal Military Service, last night made his arguments public. Writing for Tuesday's issue of Look magazine, Cole states U.M.S. would create a two year gap in the flow of trained youth, "a break in our lifeline in the most crucial decade in our history...