Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. George Holden Tinkham, 85, bald, bushy-bearded, longtime (1915-43) fiercely independent Congressman from Massachusetts' Tenth Congressional District (Boston), active campaigner against votes for women and Prohibition (during which he kept one of the best cellars in Washington) who battled cheerfully and energetically against Roosevelt, child-labor reform, the British, labor unions, segregation, the Russians, the Methodists and Willkie Republicans; at Cramerton, N.C. A Mayflower descendant and isolationist Republican, George Tinkham's popularity in his normally Democratic district was so great that he never bothered to campaign, went big-game hunting instead, named his more repulsive trophies...
Warns Bill Martin: "Inflation leads to deflation and costs people their jobs. Our biggest bugaboo is unemployment." Eleusinian Mysteries. To lay this bogey, Martin is vigorously wielding the potent weapons at his command. Although every man, woman and child...
...credit. As disposable income quadrupled since 1939, consumers raised their debt accordingly (from $7.2 billion to $37.1 billion), now owe an average 13% of take-home pay. With the addition of housing debt, the consumers' total unpaid balance in mid-1956 represented $800 for every man. woman and child in the U.S., v. $180 in 1939. From go-now, pay-later trips abroad to fill-your-teeth-on-time plans, installment buying now covers almost every contingency from womb to tomb...
...film's three stars, only Audrey Hepburn, with her precocious child's head set upon a swanlike neck, looks the part. She is perfectly the Natasha described by Tolstoy: "A dark-eyed little girl, plain, but full of life, with her wide mouth, her childish bare shoulders ... her black lair brushed back, her slender arms . . ." In her playing, Audrey catches the gamine qualities of Natasha, and her softness. What is lacking is the steely courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life...
...work was published in the U.S. (see below). Due in the U.S. early next year is Beau Clown by France's Berthe Grinault, 16, a "strange, curious book" about a professor, a psychopathic killer and a clown. The publisher's publicity agent describes Berthe as "a beautiful child of the earth, both innocent and diabolic...