Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigamous husband to bring his 15-year-old "bride" into their house: "I didn't think it would last." In Toledo, a housewife tried to explain her motive for clouting her husband over he head: "I was frying eggs and all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I hit my husband with the skillet . . ." In Hollywood, Beverly Mitchell got a divorce after she charged that her husband left her alone with the company and went off to his room to play with his electric trains...
What will happen to demonstrators is not known. The college has said, "Constitutions of those groups supporting the stoppage is to be reviewed to determine the extent of illegal conduct. No individual discipline is anticipated...
What will happen to those Russian designers when the Communists discover that their "Moscow Skyscraper of the Future" [TIME, May 2], which so derisively does not copy the Empire State Building, emulates instead, of all edifices, Colonel McCormick's eminently capitalistic structure, the Chicago Tribune Tower...
...happy," he says, "if I can contribute just a little that will take some more of the gamble out of farming. Subsidies and price supports will never do that. The only thing they contribute is progress toward socialized farming-and that's the worst thing that could happen to this country...
...Rising), a U.S. newspaperman is tormented by the same white man's burden of guilt that weighs down all Shaplen's central characters. Archer Grayson watches an outbreak of Hindu-Moslem rioting and knows, "with a terrified shame, that he had been waiting for this to happen." When Archer gets in the way of a murderous mob, his death is a kind of anguished moral suicide. Author Shaplen as much as tells the readers: hate and violence anywhere are the concern of all decent men; they can be observed with indifference only at the cost of moral health...