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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hard-Boiled Egghead | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Born. To Singing Actress Anne Jeffreys, 35, and Actor Robert Sterling, 41, the ghost husband and wife in TV's Topper series: their second child, second son (he has a daughter by a previous marriage to Actress Ann Sothern); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Robert Dana. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Divorced. Ernest Borgnine (real name: Ermes Effron Borgnine), 41, Oscar-winning (Marty) cinemactor; by Rhoda Kemins Borgnine, 34; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif, (see SHOW BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...most truly horrible part of the book is the intimate fashion in which the reader is made to see how from a monstrous relationship a kind of shadow of a good life emerges. Humbert, the false father, often becomes a truly tender pseudo parent; Lolita, the perverted child, becomes a true innocent. In the end-to Humbert's great agony-she is pregnant and happy with a young, goonlike husband. She has escaped, but there is no escape for Humbert. He seeks out a rich, pansy-type writer who had casually seduced her earlier, and in a horrific scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Stephen stood in the school study listening to the voices of boys at play. "That is God,'' said Stephen, "a shout in the street." Nabokov also seems to be asserting that all of creation is God, and that Humbert, listening in vain for the laughter of a child, knew it at the bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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