Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Rue de la Grotte one morning last week marched eight little boys, hand in hand, wide-eyed and solemn. They were leading the greatest procession ever held at Lourdes, one of Christendom's most famed places of pilgrimage...
...commuter, on the rise with United Foods, who one day, tired of it all, throws up his job. He goes home to Connecticut with no future plans beyond Do-It-Yourselfing in a chair and making love to his wife (Martha Scott) in the daytime. He also tries his hand at baking brownies, urges a drab, neglected neighbor's wife to turn slinky, encourages a job-weary laundryman to rebel, gets a lady writer to turn soulful. When the boss (amusingly played by John McGiver) comes after him. he agrees to go back to work, but quickly quits again...
...push at the Post† comes from plump, stogie-chomping Executive Editor (and Board Member) Arthur Emmett Laro, 46, whose first move on taking over as managing editor in 1947 was to fire twelve staffers. He got a free hand from his publishers, Texas' onetime (1917-20) Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor...
...shine its coat. Terrier handlers carefully plucked hair from their dogs' legs and chests, leaving a pile of red fuzz on the floor. Rumors flew that some of the competitors even had eye drops to enhance their pupils. And to keep up morale, Abercrombie & Fitch was on hand with gifts not only for the dog, e.g., rubber fire hydrants, $1, but also for the owner (imported silk ties emblazoned with dog heads...
...convinced that he was Count Alexandri Cristea, "the oldest living member of the royal family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." For others he is the tolerant chaperon who turns up at student parties equipped with a London bobby's helmet and a whistle to blow should things get out of hand. He is also the coach of the Pierson College baseball team whose head is filled with major-league statistics, and trainer of the Pierson football team whose bag is crammed with adhesive tape, aspirin, oranges and a Bible. But to all Yalemen, Chaplain Lovett is the ever-genial "Uncle...