Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young married set, some of them gadding around, stood to gain a member here and lose one there, but home life among the prominent was mostly on a pretty even keel...
Ellsworth ("Sonny Boy") Wisecarver, who delighted tabloid readers a few years ago by starting to run around with married women when he was only 14, was 19 now and getting a new view of home-wrecking. After 18 months of marriage, his wife went home to mother (she still thinks he is a "swell guy"). Sonny Boy considered the situation: "I guess I haven't been as good a husband as I should...
...Conant's first three books, written when he was a Harvard professor, were chemistry texts. His fourth was a wartime manifesto; his fifth an essay on the teaching of science. Last week, at 55, Harvard's President Conant published his sixth-and for the first time got around to a full-dress treatment of the subject that has been most on his mind the past 15 years: education, and what's wrong with it. Readers of Education in a Divided World (Harvard University Press; $3) will find it a relentlessly rational but occasionally sprightly discussion...
Serious Job. As psychiatry's U.S. sales manager, Dr. Will is well aware that any new branch of science gets a rough kicking around by the public until the idea has been well tested. Psychiatrists take some comfort in the thought that Galileo was jailed, that Lister was hooted at by his medical colleagues, and that Darwin, who changed the whole course of Western scientific thinking, was attacked viciously in his lifetime...
...Yankee management had timed things cagily. A week before, while everybody was watching the American League pennant playoff, they had fired popular Bucky Harris. Their complaint: Bucky hadn't been strict enough with playboys. Then, before the press could get around to objecting, the Yankees hired Casey, whom sportwriters all like...