Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Y.W.C.A. auditorium assigned them in Edinburgh proved frustrating: it had no dressing rooms, a poor piano, and the lighting system did not fit American plugs. Nevertheless, opening night last week saw an eager audience. On the program: three examples of a relatively new and typically American type of musical theater-the small, intimate, mostly humorous opera. First came Gertrude Stem's In a Garden, with music by Manhattan's Meyer Kupferman, a Steinishly childlike spoof on royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron...
...labor of love. It stipulated, in essence, that marketable Treasury securities would again have to find their own level in free trading. The FRB thus was able once more to exercise effective control over the money supply by buying and selling Government securities as it saw fit on the open market...
...philosopher was as modern as an existentialist, and warned against "modern man, that melancholy Pontifex Maximus" i.e., every man his own pope. Herzen's message, supported by brilliant observation of a Europe which was grandfather to today's discontents, is the simple one that no man is fit to be the master of another, whether his rule is imposed in the name of privilege or brotherhood. Today Herzen makes clear what the world lost when Russia turned its face from the West and from its own best self...
...Plymouth of the type that youngsters had seen in the vicinity of the Weinberger home on the day of the kidnaping. The kidnaper had left some old auto-seat covers, had instructed the Weinbergers to leave the ransom under them; these covers, the FBI learned, had been manufactured to fit the seats of a 1948 Plymouth. Finally, though not conclusively, the notepaper had been traced to a supplier in the general vicinity...
Troxell told police: "She just flew into a fit of wifely affection." An Ounce of Prevention. In Baytown, Texas, Mrs. Daniel E. Ellis took her husband for a drive while he was recuperating from a heart attack, lost control, bounced down a steep embankment, crashed into a truck and a cement mixer at the bottom, was uninjured but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain." Intermezzo. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Feynman won a divorce after testifying that her physicist husband's Congo...