Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time to call a halt on the progress of Edison's handiwork. He ordered the 216,000 members of his American Federation of Musicians to stop making all recordings and radio transcriptions after Dec. 31. He was playing a familiar tune. He had once cracked: "What do I care about science; my boys gotta eat." But this time Caesar Petrillo brought his tune to a crashing crescendo. Said he: "We stop making recordings once and for all-period...
Mothers were almost too weak to care for their babies. Said Mrs. Albert Ritchie of Great Neck, Long Island: "I believed there was no escape from the plane. . . . The babies' screams just tore every mother's heart to pieces. Every woman would say, There, there.' But that was about all they ever said. Our three-year-old son, Gordon, spent hours on his father's knee . . . never saying a word. We said ten thousand goodbyes with our eyes that...
Princess Elizabeth and Philip got an official worrier to take care of the grocery bills & so on. Appointed household controller and treasurer: Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, wartime Chief of Staff of the South East Asia Command, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
...believes in giving customers their money's worth, Primitive Bombois says proudly that he "never went in for mass production, like Picasso. Why, even today I spend as much as three months on a single picture." He lavished particular care on one canvas in last week's show, entitled "Self-Portrait with the Big Hat" (see cut). "I've always had a weakness for big hats," says Camille Bombois. "More than anything else, they are to me the symbol of our profession...
...Granting veterans free hospitalization and medical care for life...