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...decided instantly that six-year-old Mavis was a white child; he took her home. Young Mrs. Botha gave Mavis a good bath, tied her hair in gay ribbons, gave her her first doll, her first shoes and set her at a table to learn to eat with knife & fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mavis & the Law | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring Fork Valley, 30 miles northwest of Aspen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Antidote for Easy Living | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...Airlift, Fork-Lift. The Kidders helped to pay for a two-room addition to the Johnson house. Barbara Johnson Kidder had learned at the Mary MacArthur Center how to care for her husband. Last fall, everything was set. The National Foundation shipped out a rocking bed, a wheelchair, an iron lung, a portable respirator and oddments of other equipment. It arranged with the Military Air Transport Service to fly Kidder west. He made the trip in an iron lung (by a roundabout scenic route), with MATS supplying a forklift to heft him in & out of the plane's extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of John Kidder | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...shots of Ike preparing to carve the bird. Noticing the dismay of his three grandchildren at the delay, Ike quickly cut off a few slices and divided them among the kids as an advance helping. Asked why he held the bird in place with a small dinner fork rather than the usual carving fork, Ike gave an embarrassed grin. "It's already packed," he said, ready for the move to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Packed & Ready | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...aspect of life. Amid voluminous dissertations on manners she does not hesitate to write: "Nothing, not even a bad clam, is ever spit, however surreptitiously, into a napkin. But it is sheer masochism to down . . . something really spoiled." What to do? She suggests depositing partly chewed food with the fork on the side of the plate, to be quickly "screened" thereafter with celery or bread. Other items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gracious Living for All | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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