Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Destiny may have been more casual in those days, but she was just as determined to give a simple soldier an awful tough time. In The Life of Billy Yank, a brother volume to The Life of Johnny Reb (1943), Historian Bell Irvin Wiley recites the hard facts of daily life in the Union armies-or rather, he lets "Billy Yank" do his own talking, through the letters and other scraps of identity he left lying in his prodigious trail...
Anyone but Pastor Bart could have guessed. And Novelist O'Hara fills his bitter cup to overflowing. Bart came to learn that his wife had not only been unfaithful to him with brother Ramsey, but with a long list of casual characters as well. Bart Wyngate had a nervous breakdown...
Bevanites are already talking, in a casual way, about such a man. He is James Griffiths, a 61-year-old Welshman who came, like Nye Bevan, out of the coal mines. They hint that should Attlee drop out at some future date, Bevan himself might not grab for control. Privately, the Bevan followers say that silver-maned Jim Griffiths would be a fine bridge between the moderate, old-line Socialists and the left-wingers. An old-style trade unionist himself, he came from the revivalist meetings and coal dust of South Wales, eked out an education in London...
...scratching device in the New Mexico Stockman caught Al Rosenfeld's eye and turned into an item for the BUSINESS section (TIME, April 9). A full-page treatment of a cowboy camp meeting in the RELIGION section (TIME, July 30) started with a casual remark made while Rosenfeld was interviewing an artist. San Francisco Correspondent Serrell Hillman was covering a professional women's golf tournament at Carmel, Calif, when a friend mentioned the Army language school at Monterey, which was covered in TIME'S EDUCATION section (TIME, July...
Flexing her muscles last week, Sheilah began her new job by dishing out some of the casual poison that has got her barred from the sets of such Hollywood stars as Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Samples: "Errol [Flynn] says he doesn't worry about money just as long as he can reconcile his net income with his gross habits . . . Lana Turner is saying that Bob Topping owes her $82,000. Moral: Never marry a trust fund...