Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Audience, which is the oldest of the three, is also the fattest. It seems a bit middle-aged, and the people who write it give the impression they use their talent to dabble. Certainly most of its 127 pages are cheerful; some readers may find it even innocuous here and there. But it seldom it ever offends...
...blueberries lie in a patch of ground belonging to some city people. Two resourceful farmers, who like blueberries quite a bit, become rivals for the patch and expend considerable effort in attempts to acquire the blueberries. Means writes with economy in this piece, and he never lets his smooth style get away from him. It's funny. Wernick's story also is amusing, perhaps extraneous at times, but on the whole a dryly wise comment on how life she is lived in the U.S.A., where we learn love is a faith and marriage a chapel. "Birthday Letter" finds Allen Grossman...
Urge v. Surge. Income and outgo, the President announced, will run "in the general area" of $77 billion (TIME, Dec. 29) -an outgo some $2 billion below this year's spending level of $79.2 billion. The Defense Department will actually get an unspecified bit more than the $40.8 billion it is spending this year. "Reductions in total spending," said the President hopefully, "will be achieved in part by reason of the ending of temporary programs in agriculture, unemployment insurance and housing...
Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated auntique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame...
...Angeles, which got off fairly well after Thanksgiving, then had a bad slump when mid-December turned unseasonably hot, finally got a bit of brisk weather. Shoppers surged into the stores in such numbers that some places reported sales 10% above 1957. What made merchants everywhere particularly happy was that buyers headed for the expensive goods. Said Cyril Magnin of San Francisco's Joseph Magnin: "All the higher-priced lines in everything did very well." Philadelphia reported a year-end run on jewelry and furs. Said Max Robb, president of the City Stores chain: The customers of all income...