Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Eisenhower home, a low stone ranch house in the expensive Mission hills district, curious neighbors clustered to see the two Eisenhower brothers, in dark blue overcoats and Homburgs, go up the walk, step inside and give their coats to a maid. Brother Earl, who had planned to meet them at the airport, had arrived ten minutes earlier. After chatting quietly for 25 minutes, the family drove to the Stein & McClure funeral chapel. There, in a curtained-off alcove out of sight of 200 mourners, they heard the Rev. Donald O'Connor of the Kansas City-founded Unity Society...
...most curious paradox about the annual scramble to get into college is that, far from fearing they will end up with too many freshmen, many admissions officers worry about getting too few. In the College Board Review, Headmaster John Gummere of Philadelphia's William Penn Charter School describes the headaches that result from students' applying for and being accepted by as many as 20 colleges before deciding...
Blessed Mother Goose. Other critics scoff at the nearly total domination of kiddies' books by such animals as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Curious Little Owl, Peter the Sea Trout, Cottontail Rabbit, Brush Goat, Milk Goat, Cuter Tooter (a donkey), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Brown Bear, The Happy Lion, Big Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever...
...streets of Goulimine, which were thronged with khaki-clad, black-turbaned members of the irregular Liberation Army force that launched the attack on the Ifni enclave three weeks ago; jeeps and trucks sped past toward the Ifni frontier with loads of food and supplies for the attackers. By a curious coincidence, the governor happens to be a longtime collaborator of the Moroccan Liberation Army, whose most fanatic members, their fight against France won with independence, moved south last year to the borders of the areas still controlled by Spain. Goulimine's mayor, the governor of nearby Tiznit, and most...
...exurbs of New Jersey and Long Island, the middleweights give readers a commodity that increasingly defies the resources of the big-city daily: intensive home-town coverage plus an increasingly sophisticated coverage of world affairs. Now a giant among examples of the trend, Alicia Patterson's broadly curious, ad-fat Newsday (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954) has scooped 268,626 Long Island readers right out of the pants pockets of New York City's seven major dailies since 1940. Under the guns of Los Angeles' four dailies, 30 suburban and small-town papers share more than...