Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many wives have developed their own special ways of helping out with TIME stories. Part-time Correspondent Bud Wild, of London, Ontario, credits his wife, Libby, with an "uncanny ability to put the finger on me no matter where I may wander," whenever a TIME query comes to their home. In Hartford, Conn., Moses Berkman's wife, Florence, is especially helpful on stories dealing with art, since she is both an ex-reporter and a member of the Hartford Art School Board. But Louis Brustein, Bridgeport, Conn., attributes to his wife an unusual aptitude: her patience in peeling onions...
...model case is the rise of the National Socialist movement to power with the Gnostic chorus wailing its moral indignation at such barbarian and reactionary doings in a progressive world-without, however, raising a finger to repress the rising force by a minor political effort in proper time...
...even the newest bride from cooking disasters. An "electronic-eye" thermostat, controlled by the heat of the cooking pan, automatically turns off the burner when the water boils away or the food begins to scorch. Westinghouse's new refrigerator has a "magic door" which pops open at a finger touch...
...Spear") Kenyatta, the London-educated Kikuyu who, settlers believe, is the brains behind the Mau Mau. Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu...
...seemed pretty effete. Written by Poet W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman as an 18th century moral fable, The Rake's book pointed its moral more in irony than in earnestness, had a minimum of dramatic action onstage, and for its biggest bit of comedy wagged its lean finger at a bearded lady. What the audience saw was an expensive series of tableaus (patterned somewhat after Hogarth's famed engravings) peopled by a number of over-symbolic and under-blooded characters, none of whom evoked much sympathy...