Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young (27) Briton Thomas Hinde. Two others, slickly competent, successful and considerably overrated by reviewers...
Life with Mother. In Milwaukee, Rudolph H. Kroetz got a divorce after he charged that his wife Helen had 1) started a fire in his bedroom when he refused to get up at 2 a.m. to talk to her, 2) slammed a door in his face, shattering the glass, 3) broken a bottle over his head...
TIME Agent Mary Helen Colby of Wellesley College reports that selling subscriptions often leads to unexpected complications : "I have taken time out to give seniorly advice on topics ranging from how-to-lose-weight-for-the-coming-formal to writing freshman compositions in the approved manner." And speaking of freshmen, TIME Agent Nish Kechejian of Bates College says: "I have had pretty good results. Among the 115 male freshmen here, 105 have either an individual or a group subscription...
Ghost Papers. A key paper in the publishers' united front was the Herald Tribune, which was not directly involved in the strike, since its engraving is done outside its plant. Nevertheless, Trib President Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid brought out one issue of an eight-page paper, then announced that she was suspending publication "until further notice." (She then left on a trip to Paris.) The Trib suspended because the Times made it clear that if the Trib continued to publish, the Times might settle independently with the union, thus probably forcing the others to settle also. Since the Trib...
Material which came into his possession as a result of his official capacity allegedly was made available through intermediaries to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, his wife, Helen Witte Silvermaster, and William Ludwig Ullmann. Both Silvermaster and Ullmann are employees of the United States Treasury Department, reportedly directly under the supervision of White...