Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow she also finds time to fill up the fortnightly Enid Blyton Magazine (circ. almost 300,000). She replies in writing to 3.000 fan letters a week, deals with 25 British and 40 foreign publishers, supervises four children's social clubs (365,000 members), one of which supports a convalescent home for children under five. Her well-known surgeon husband runs five different Enid Blyton companies, collects royalties from such products as Noddy chocolates, Noddy nighties...
...used every trick in the book to keep them afraid, keep them horrified. His craziest fan, Lady Caroline Lamb (TIME, Oct. 11), fell dramatically in love with him. When she cooed, "Should you like to see me waltz with any man but yourself?", he replied that "he should have no objection whatever, upon which with no more ado the fair Lady whips a knife into her own side." Fortunately, observes a cynical onlooker: "Venus . . . interposed in the shape of a pair of stays, so that the blow was by no means fatal...
...James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Allan Nevins (833 pp.; Pantheon; $8.50). In a heroic effort to save one of his favorite authors from the oblivion of an unread classic. Columbia University's versatile Historian Allan Nevins has undertaken to streamline Fenimore Cooper for moderns. A lifelong Cooper fan who played make-believe Deerslayer as an Illinois farmboy, Nevins has taken the five Leatherstocking tales-The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into one handsome volume. Modern...
Bread & Water. Addington tracked down parents of the boys, found one father who said that guards had tied his son to a carpenter's sawhorse while they whipped him with straps. Another parent said that her boy had been whipped with a fan belt split at the end. Addington paid a surprise visit to the reformatory, demanded that Superintendent Jaffa Miller show him the jail, where he had been told that boys were kept on bread and water for days at a stretch. The jail proved to be filthy, airless cells, one containing three emaciated teen-agers stripped...
...Carl S. (for Swift) Hallauer, 60, was elected president of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. A sports fan and part-time politico (he is known as Rochester's "Mr. Republican"), Hallauer made an early mark in business by setting up one of the country's first employee recreation programs for Eastman Kodak. Bausch & Lomb wanted one like it, hired him in 1919 as industrial relations director, and later salesman. In 1931, he persuaded the late Al Smith to put Bausch & Lomb coin-operated telescopes atop the Empire State Building. In 1935 he was made sales vice...