Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixes fantasy with fact ("some authors have brownies explain about stalagmites; they think it helps the children, but it confuses them''). She is careful not to tell her readers what to think ("we tell them how to make some gadget, but we never say it's fun"). Above all, she never slants her pieces to please parents or teachers because "there are more kids [than teachers]; that's our whole policy...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for fun; with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
Long Live the King. There were few World War II veterans among the 3,400 delegates, fewer still among the 30,000 other Legionnaires who came along for the fun-although they outnumber World War I veterans two to one among the Legion's 3,000,000 members. In the battle to elect next year's commander, the old-guard "king makers" squelched a rebellion by the younger veterans, steamrolled serenely on to victory with stocky, bespectacled S. Perry Brown, 56, veteran of both wars and general manager of a Beaumont, Tex. building-materials company. It wasn...
Frankie finds pro football "every bit as much fun as college football and more. Maybe the motivating force is extra money-but it's for the wife and kiddies [he has two] rather than for the good old alumni. I guess I don't like work and I'm too lazy to steal...
Magic, vaudeville, comedy, and singing will provide pre-halloween fun for 1,300 Boston youngsters this afternoon and evening when Phillips Brooks House stages its annual round of cider-and-doughnut parties at local settlement houses...