Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delayed Degree. When Sigmund was four, the family moved to Vienna. A bookworm, he graduated from high school summa cum laude at 17. It was then the fashion in polite strata of most European society to lock sex in a darkened bedroom and pretend that otherwise (except for haut-monde libertines and the licentious "lower classes") it did not exist. For whatever inner need, the adolescent Freud accepted this viewpoint, once even warned his sister Anna off Balzac and Dumas...
Stormy Weather. Last week Wisconsin obliged the pollsters in properly oracular fashion-by raising more questions than it really answered. The Republicans carried nine out of ten congressional districts, 58 out of 71 counties, and 58% of the total vote (for Ike, 426,408; for Chappie, 20,558). The G.O.P. percentage of total votes was down 18 points from the 1952 primary (when the Republicans came out in droves for a five-man race that did not include Eisenhower), and down only three points from the 1952 general election, when Ike carried the state...
Married. Frank McMahon, 53, multimillionaire Canadian oil magnate, chairman of the board of Pacific Petroleums Ltd.; and Betty Betz, 36, fashion designer and onetime Hearst-syndicated columnist on teen-age doings; in Branford, Conn. (see BUSINESS...
...would also seem more like a house. An additional bit of prestige might also be added by giving the commuters a housemaster, as well as a senior tutor. And most important, with a new, aesthetically pleasing Georgian building, commuters would have something to be proud of in a positive fashion...
While their husbands preview cadaver trends for '57, the morticians' ladies will enjoy the Silhouettes of '56, a live fashion show...