Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relegated to the Hearth. Tiger calls this particular kind of masculine affinity "bonding": the forging of strong emo tional ties between men that have noth ing to do with women. He contends that these male bonds go back to the origins of human society, owe much to man's animal genesis and are probably genetically determined. They must first have been formed, Tiger speculates, when man turned hunter - an event that occurred anywhere from 2,000,000 to 26 million years ago and that forever after relegated man's female companion to the responsibilities of the hearth...
Waddling around on feet that by all rights ought to be webbed, Oscar Madison is the slop-happiest hero in history. In midsummer, Christmas stockings still hang over his hearth, and his refrigerator is cleaned so seldom that he has milk standing up in there without the bottle. And yet, as played by Walter Matthau, he is the better half of The Odd Couple...
...portraying Scrooge, which was repeated last week for the sixth consecutive sea son. Other animated perennials are CBS's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," NBC's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and a new NBC entry, "The Cricket on the Hearth." Of course, as happened last week, it is always possible to have The Flying Nun conjure up a white Christmas in the tropics or send Dragnet's Sgt. Friday in pursuit of the scoundrel who stole the Christ child from a Nativity scene. But how much easier...
...sweet brownies. It was their night. Mrs. Hicks came in first, 13,000 ahead of the other nominee, Secretary of State Kevin H. White, and 20,000 ahead of state Rep. John W. Sears. In a phone-cluttered City Club office reached by crawling into a fireplace hearth, lifting a trapdoor, and climbing down some stairs, one of Mrs. Hicks' campaign strategists snorted, "We aren't amateurs here." He predicted firm victory in November...
Died. Jane Darwell, 86, veteran actress in more than 300 Hollywood films, a strong-featured Missourian who over the years played mother (to Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart), grandmother (to Shirley Temple, Fabian) and whatever other home-and-hearth character the plot demanded, most notably Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which won her a 1940 Oscar, and the Bird Woman in Mary Pop pins; of a heart attack; in Woodland Hills, Calif...