Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea has focused the news spotlight on some faces that have long been familiar to TIME readers - especially in times of trouble. This week General Bradley makes his fourth appearance on TIME'S cover. Last week Joseph Stalin was there for the eighth time. A fortnight ago General MacArthur turned up for his seventh cover. Each of their cover portraits is reproduced below with a characteristic quotation from the stories about them - a partial record of what TIME has been saying about these news figures over the last two decades...
...These familiar facts and some interesting new observations about the menopause are included in a new book, You'll Live Through It (Harper; $2.50), by Seattle's Dr. Miriam Lincoln. Greying Dr. Lincoln, who is 50 herself, attacks many old wives' tales about the menopause...
Reading the ultra-Tory London Daily Mail last week, Londoners chuckled at a sprightly story by a reporter who wanted to buy a bicycle and found himself snarled in the paper work of Laborite bureaucracy. The headline was of a familiar pattern...
...Gump family have been galumphing along in their daily comic strip for over 30 years. They first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Chinless, blowhard Andy Gump, his long-suffering, last-wording wife Min, and their billionaire Uncle Bim became as familiar to millions of newspaper readers as the neighbors, and Andy's anguished cry for help ("O, Mini") was a byword of the '30s. When a minor character called Mary Gold was heartlessly killed off (the first U.S. comic-strip figure to die), thousands of readers protested...
...Face Is Familiar. In Manhattan, Hyman Krasow appeared on a TV show called "Draw Me a Laugh," was spotted by his daughter in Boston, who told her mother, who re-opened 14-year-old desertion and nonsupport charges against...