Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in a footnote [TIME, May 10] about one of the undergraduate activities of the late William Horace de Vere Cole (see cut), brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. An English friend of mine . . . told me of a couple of other exploits carried out by Cole while still an undergraduate at Cambridge...
This prospect brought no joy to Brazilian diplomats, whose nation has long been the fair-haired hemispheric boy of U.S. military planning. The U.S. had no intention of abandoning so old and strategically located a friend as Brazil. But planners in the Pentagon, thinking in terms of securing the U.S.'s southern flank, figured that Argentina is the most powerful nation in Latin America, and that Washington would do well to be on the good side of its army leaders...
...case and is, as always, excellent, stopping just short of underplaying. As Jenny's husband, the producers have cast another fine actor, Bernard Blier, who has the insolence to play the romantic lead with a bald head. Imagine. Other good performers are Simone Renant as the couple's faithful friend, and Charles Dulin as the debauched producer...
...extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently has a well-endowed faculty...
Other practical pointers: exercise to give a man a "high head, a flat belly, a capable heart"; care in the use of alcohol, which is "a dangerous enemy, an agreeable acquaintance, and a helpful friend." Doctors should tell their elderly patients whether a drink would help them (alcohol is a vasodilator, relaxing the coronary arteries) or hurt them (cocktails are bad for arthritics). Being overweight is not really a problem of old age, says Dr. Crampton, for fat men seldom live that long. But the public should put more of its money into research into chronic diseases, which make...