Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help any boy without a college degree, or a girl without a high school education. Once the initial screening is over, Ishizaka gets down to basics. "The luster of the eyes," he says, "often indicates the sexual abilities or inabilities of their owners." The shinier the eyes, the better, and the sprightliest girls of all, he asserts, "are those with eyes that are glistening but look at the same time somewhat wet." It is enough to make a girl want...
...only a week and found the necessary charming-eyed lovely in 24 hours. He never asks a fee, leaving that to the generosity of the persons concerned. The largest sum he has received is $833; the smallest, zero. His average monthly income is $850, and business is getting better all the time. He will admit to only five failures among the marriages he has arranged: two because the husbands went off to prison and three because the young men (to his great disgust) turned out to be inscrutable. Why did the failures occur? "I couldn't test their engines...
...public indignation and campaigned across the nation until-finally-a body of laws was passed to protect workers. Last week the good doctor, now grown fragile with age, observed her 100th birthday amid family and friends at her home in Hadlyme, Conn. The U.S., she believes, is a much better country now than when she began her crusade. "It has shed many injustices, much blindness, ignorance, arrogance, even ruthlessness." If that is true, she shares the credit...
...violin at age four. After a year of study with Ivan Galamian (TIME, Dec. 6), Paul made his professional debut at eight with the New Haven Symphony. Meanwhile, his parents had stopped sending their prodigy to school after the first grade, partly because they felt they could do a better job tutoring him themselves. They did. At 13, Paul won a New York City high school equivalency diploma. At 14, he entered Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. By the time he was 17, he had played three major recitals in Carnegie Hall. At 20, he received his Master...
Early American silver, though generally not up to European standards in workmanship and design, also sells for giddy prices. The magic name is Paul Revere, even though myth-shattering experts agree that Revere was no better than other Boston silversmiths of his day. A three-piece Revere tea set was sold for $70,000 last year, up from about the $30,000 it was traded for only five years earlier. Says Kevin Tierney, 26, the sharp-eyed Irish appraiser that Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries imported a year ago to smarten up its silver department...