Word: adults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...shuffled out followed by a handful of puzzled parents. It had been far from a boisterous success, but Copping was not discouraged. Last week he began laying plans to divide Britain up into districts and to launch a recruiting drive. His enthusiasm was shared by at least one other adult-Cane Manufacturer Eric Wildman, who had dropped in to hear Copping's manifesto at Kingsway Hall. Wildman thought the Copping thesis might bring on its own swift reactionary antithesis, with more corporal punishment than before, and great benefit to canemakers. Said he: "This is a fine advert [-isement...
Carr (an American who has spent most of his adult life in England) is the first biographer to get free access to Sir Arthur's huge stock of letters and manuscripts. Since Carr himself is a talented contriver of whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have...
...Mashed Potatoes Circuit. Without ever taking his eye from his real goal-politics-Humphrey returned to Minnesota and a series of odd jobs: as an instructor at the university, as adult education director for the WPA, and as assistant regional director of the War Manpower Commission. But he also began to get around. In his WPA job, he printed and mailed out thousands of diplomas, each carefully signed by Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. He joined everything in sight. The word spread that Hubert Humphrey was a rousing speaker-and always available...
...Lucky Pup CBS has the most literate children's show on Eastern TV. A considerable part of its adult-appeal is supplied by telegenic Doris Brown, who introduces the various characters: Lucky Pup, a dog playboy with a $5,000,000 inheritance; Foodini, an evil but outstandingly inefficient magician; Pinhead, an amiable stooge, and Jolo, a clown...