Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...take-off of a book-and-author luncheon, the plight of a man who has sworn off cigarettes, and a parody of a sentimental French chanteuse. Assisting-usually at their peril-are Comics David Burns and Jack Gilford, and Lenore (Junior Miss) Lonergan. Now grown up, Actress Lonergan should make a good comedienne when she gets the right comedy...
Boom, Pause, Boom. It was hard for Columbia to believe. In 50 years Carlton Hayes had become an almost legendary figure on Morningside Heights. He was the elder statesman with the courtly manners who could call a greying colleague "My dear boy . . ." and still make it sound quite proper. He taught history with an actor's skill. Looking majestically out into space, he would boom a few sentences, then pause, then boom out again. Sometimes he would wrap his double-breasted coat close around him as if it were a cloak and seem to become Disraeli, Metternich or Bismarck...
...worked. When penicillin killed off the streptococci early, rheumatic fever was prevented in almost every case. Dr. Rammelkamp's conclusion: "Since roughly 60% of all strep throats are severe enough to make the patient seek a physician's advice, it is now possible to prevent 60% of rheumatic fever cases...
...long-dead mistress Hendrickje Stoffels, finished in 1666, when he had gained the resigned wisdom of an aging, ruined man waiting for death. It was part of Rembrandt's misfortune that such later pictures had left the stolid burghers of Amsterdam cold. Last week they helped to make the show at the Wildenstein the warmest in Manhattan...
Despite the intentions of Editor Cowles and Managing Editor George Davis to make Flair "spectacularly different, completely unconventional," the new magazine often seemed like a blurred carbon copy of such well-established originals as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country. The best things in the first issue: French Artist Raymond Peynet's amorously whimsical drawings, a sepia and black Baedeker of Morocco, a new Tennessee Williams short story...