Word: hadley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JANE HADLEY Kansas City...
These 20 well-tooled tales are of "how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy," when "we" meant a part-time correspondent for a Canadian newspaper and his redheaded wife Hadley. They were "Tatie" and "Binney" to each other and nothing to anybody else except a handful of fellow writers who shared the 25-year-old Midwesterner's tough belief in his own talent. He had sold a few short stories for marks in Germany and peanuts in the little magazines like transatlantic review. Gertrude Stein had told...
...parents who have decided to give it a try, Author Hadley bristles with travel tips, both obvious and esoteric...
...planes: "A child throwing up is an unpleasant circumstance," to forestall which Traveler Hadley has discovered what she calls a "miracle preflight diet: Six hours before the flight, a little toast, coffee, tea or one-half glass of milk, and some tinned peaches with heavy syrup; 4 hours before the flight, 8 to 16 ounces of any of the calorie-rich reducing liquids." > On bidets: "It's no good to say 'It's not a drinking fountain,' because your child will still want to know what it is. There's no use your giving your...
Shocks & Surprises. Mother Hadley is not one for insulating young minds from un-American sights and sounds that may seem somewhat shocking. The sheer gruesomeness of a torture chamber, she feels, may inspire children with more respect for and curiosity about history's tortured. She feels much the same way about bullfights. She advises parents to explain the mythological and historical background of bullfighting to any children "capable of understanding and reason" and then take them to a major corrida. "Whether your children are horrified or think it enormously exciting, I think, in light of its past history...