Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago, on street hoardings and building walls in Vienna, there appeared a slick American poster bearing a message stamped across an Austrian ration card (see cut). The message read: "Sixty percent of your ration is a present from American aid for Austria. The money that you pay for it stays in the country. The Austrian government uses it to help the needy...
...Report Card (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Hour-long documentary on the crisis in education, based on a Rutgers University-CBS survey of schools in one U.S. town...
...profession of religious faith. Dr. Tiebout believes that it was, essentially, a kind of spiritual awakening. Soon afterward, the patient joined Alcoholics Anonymous and quit drinking for good. He said to the psychiatrist some time later: "You did something to me when you made me sign that card. I knew you meant business. I made up my mind I wasn't going to run my own case any longer. . . . [Then] I felt calmer and quieter inside and have ever since...
Last week, 25 years later, the 1,000th paper (the Portsmouth, N.H. Herald) was taking James Robert Williams'* Out Our Way. His homely handiwork was the biggest drawing card on N.E.A.'s list. His panels (single pictures) tell an anecdote but no continued stories. Like the soft light of a kerosene lamp, they light up, with humor and understanding, the quiet corners of everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently...
...Gosch) has Ginger Rogers' mother involved in two $1,000,000 lawsuits; on the radio last September she denounced it as Communist propaganda. On Broadway last week it seemed, with its plea for peace on earth and good will toward men, about as Communistic as the average Christmas card. And just about as creative...