Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booklet), and she thus needs something to "clear the cobwebs out of her brains." The solution, of course, is WAA (Weekend Activities Association). This tasteless group (it plans freshman dances with Yale, Princeton, and Williams) adds "the fun of new faces and new places" to the overworked child's "week-end curriculum...
...George H. Akins, who had been arrested by the police after some disorderly conduct. As he stood trial in City Judge Doyle's court, his eight-year-old daughter standing beside him began to cry, anguished by the spectacle of her father at bay. The man saw the child's distress, reached out one hand and smoothed down her blonde bangs, pulled out a handkerchief and began to mop her eyes. Suddenly a look of pain broke across his face. "I didn't go out there to cause any trouble," he blurted. He too burst into tears...
...predicted that popular practitioner in purple prose, United Mine Workers President John Llewelyn Lewis, when his brain child was born eleven years ago. Last week the U.M.W.'s employer-financed Welfare and Retirement Fund mailed out its slick-paper annual report, bound in a red velvetlike cover, and the statistics in it were nearly as impressive as old John L.'s prose. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, the fund took in $157 million (its best year, largely because of increased soft-coal production), laid out $138 million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits...
Died. Anne Parrish, 68, novelist, deft, sometimes ruthless, seldom lenient recorder of typical American scenes (Poor Child, All Kneeling); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Danbury, Conn...
Born. To Billy Pearson, 37, pint-sized jockey, TV quiz wizard (The $64,000 Question), passionate art collector, and Queta Pearson, 38: a daughter, their first child; in San Diego. Name: Maria Christina. Weight...