Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week Hogarth House will publish (at $2.95) The Sexual Conduct of Men and Women, by Norman Lockridge (author of Bachelors' Quarters and editor of The Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom). Says a dust-jacket blurb: "We did not plan to publish the contents of this book for some time to come . . . [but] excitement caused by the recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women...
...treatment is entertaining. The story of the airplane builder who runs for president and discovers that "he must approve everything except sin" has been filmed true to script. Spencer Tracy blusters sufficiently for a man who jumps into politics over his neck and gradually discovers that handing out golden platitudes on silver platters is a tricky business. He winces effectively as his managers tell him that people are nice but they don't count--only votes matter and they come from Machines. Tracy comes of age after his initial political junket across the country; he decides for the people...
Hoffman had another appointment just about ready to announce. He had picked Clinton S. Golden, onetime machinist, vice president of Phil Murray's United Steelworkers, writer and lecturer on labor problems and labor adviser to the U.S. mission to Greece, to be ECA's adviser on labor affairs. The two most important appointments-deputy administrator and ECA's ambassador-at-large were still to be made...
...Albert Hibbs and Roy Walford, University of Chicago graduates who last year won $7,500 at Reno with a roulette system of their own devising (TIME, Dec. 1), turned up at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas. They played No. 9 for 53 hours, ran their $300 stake up to $1,200, began to lose, switched to 1 and 0. After three days they were still $700 ahead...
When, on their golden wedding anniversary, NBC gave the Maestro and buxom Carla Toscanini a clock that supposedly would run for 50 years without rewinding, Toscanini beamed happily and said: "Just think, when this clock stops, no one here in this room will be here but me." Last week Carla was in Italy, and son Walter and his family were staying with the Maestro at the big house in Riverdale. Daughter Wanda visits frequently (with her pianist husband, Vladimir Horowitz). He often talks by telephone with his other daughter Wally, the Countess Castel-barco, who lives in Italy...