Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more faith. Where children are concerned, we need a little more discipline and a little less indulgence." Mrs. Agnelli had better be right. On that homey recipe she has become a No. 1 newspaper counselor, and mother confessor to millions of U.S. newspaper readers. Last week Bell Syndicate let out a well-kept secret: Mrs. Agnelli is the new "Dorothy Dix." She is also the wife of the syndicate's general manager, Joseph Agnelli. She has been writing the column for more than a year, helping out ailing Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, the original Dorothy Dix. When Mrs. Gilmer...
...readers: how to keep a home and a job at the same time. She does it by working as long as 20 hours a day. Born in Manhattan, she went to Hunter College and studied journalism and psychology at Columbia. After marrying in 1929, she got a job editing Bell Syndicate's four-page tabloid for children called the "Sunshine Club." Later, she helped write an advice feature and did a turn as stamp columnist before becoming Dorothy...
Soundstripe. Bell & Howell Co., maker of movie cameras, has developed a comparatively cheap and simple method of giving a voice to home movies. The conventional "optical" sound track on the edge of the film is replaced by a "sound-stripe" of magnetic material, as in a tape recorder. When used in the home, the film will catch baby's first coos and gurgles as well as his early toddlings. The sound can be erased and changed for each showing of the film. A salesman exhibiting his company's product can adapt his canned spiel to fit the weak...
Died. Sherman Hoar Bowles,* 61, who parlayed an inherited newspaper (the Springfield, Mass. Republican) into a multimillion-dollar empire; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting with the paper founded in 1824 by his great-grandfather, Bowles finally owned large slices of Bell Aircraft Co., Manhattan's Longchamps restaurant chain, Atlas Tack Co., a Wall Street skyscraper. Involved for nearly two decades in skirmishes with his unionized Springfield employees, he tried, in 1947, to deliver his own papers from his strike-crippled Daily News plant, got fined $25 for piloting the paper's truck without a driver...
TIME'S Middle East Correspondent James Bell has toured the Persian Gulf area for the past five weeks, observing the revolution. His report...