Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter never elopes with the local garage mechanic. The shoemaker's son rarely rises to a professorship at the Sorbonne. The businessman's boy would never think of devoting his life to farming or even less of entering the civil service. A schoolteacher's child can conceivably become a successful lawyer, and a winegrower's son, with luck and capital, may operate a thriving tractor agency. One can be hopeful - to a limit...
...paradoxical way also contributed to a split between youth and its elders in the labor movement. The vast wave of agitation for better conditions that swept through the early '30s was largely led by family breadwinners. Today, with allotments for children (ranging from $10 a month for one child under five to $80 for four children), workers with families have gone into a different kind of income bracket from the young bachelors or the young marrieds. If the young workers in the factories want to strike for benefits today, they would have to go it alone. Thus...
Dejected and fretful when his diplomatic credentials failed to arrive in Bonn in time for Sovereignty Day (TIME, May 16), new Ambassador to West Germany James Bryant Conant perked up last week when his Senate confirmation finally showed up. Long a U.S. diplomatic step child as High Commissioner, Harvard's ex-president jubilantly sped off to Bad Kissingen, where West Germany's old (71) President Theodor Heuss was vacationing. Heuss, who had reckoned that the presentation ceremony could wait until he was back on the job, bowed to American haste. He accepted Conant's papers, congratulated...
Born. To Robert Merrill (real name: Robert Miller), 37, Metropolitan Opera baritone, and Marion Machno Merrill. 25: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: David Robert. Weight...
...with a fake masterpiece on their hands. Last week Sir Philip Hendy, director of London's august National Gallery, woke up to find that for him the dream had come true. A London art dealer had proved that the National Gallery's Virgin with Angel and Child by the 15th century Italian, Francesco Francia, was a fake...