Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller members of the United Nations often find it hard to keep their U.N. delegations up to strength. Budgets cannot stand the cost of salaries for a full complement, and qualified, self-supporting volunteers are rare. Last year Costa Rica's U.N. Ambassador Alberto Canas found one-a charming Alabaman named Henrietta Boggs, 37. Her Costa Rican qualification: marriage from 1942 to 1953 to President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Her means of support, Pepe's alimony...
...going to marry her boss, Writer-Producer James Hill, 41. of the Midas-touch Hecht-Hill-Lancaster independent moviemaking outfit. Eying his prospects of being Rita's fifth bridegroom, Bachelor Hill, now busy with a screen version of Separate Tables that will star Rita, avidly wants "Rita to find happiness when she marries again. She has had so much unhappiness in her life" (with Oilman Edward Judson, Actor Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan and Crooner Dick Haymes). As usual when altar-bound. Bride-to-Be Hayworth was plucky and positive: "I have never been happier in my whole life...
...wives' tales have long held that it is better not to be born in a certain season (which season depends on which old wife). Physicians are now trying to find out whether there is any basis for the notion. Last week the American Public Health Association, meeting in Cleveland, heard unexpected findings...
Making it tough for the panelists is the job of Producer Gil Fates, a sort of inverted Diogenes, who must first find "people everyone has heard of but no body has seen," but whose even harder search is for people adept at lying. Fates keeps enormous files of newspaper clips about odd characters, and complete cards on everyone who has ever entered his office...
...stations that carry him without advertising, Lewis told listeners: "They, too, have to live, and the time period which I occupy is a valuable one. Unless they are able to find local advertisers who will sponsor this program, there is a natural economic temptation to bypass this one and substitute some musical program, perhaps, from which they can get some revenue...