Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Dr. Harold Aaron of Manhattan, author of a book on constipation, spent a year collecting many of the latest medical wrinkles that laymen need to know. Last week he published a cheery home companion. Good Health and Bad Medicine (McBride; $3), giving scientific advice on colds, bellyaches, feet, tooth decay, pimples, laxatives, painkillers, hair tonics...
Policeman Hoover has never been known to have had any woman-affair in New York City. A bachelor, he is seldom seen without a male companion, most frequently solemn-faced Clyde Tolson, his assistant. His reason: his dread that someone, some day, somewhere, will plant a naked woman in his path, try to frame...
...actual collision of sun and star, the two bodies drawing out a ribbon of their commingled substance as they veered away from each other. Other theorists supposed that the sun had originally been a double star, that an intruding third star had carried away the sun's companion but had left behind enough debris for planet-building...
Paid $15,000 for his Columbus, Irving started off in 1828 on his famous journey through Andalusia, Spain's South, gathering material for and writing on The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra. Traveling through wild mountains with a Russian prince for companion, he met contrabandistas, looked for bandits, was feted by village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...