Word: helens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once they are ready to go home after a stay in the hospital, most people are too delighted-or intimidated-to question the bill. Even when it seems too big, they shut up and pay up. Not Mrs. Helen Clark, a lawyer who likes to get what she pays for. When Manhattan's Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals billed her $701.23 after eleven days of treatment for a blood clot in her leg, the figure struck her as high, and she asked for an itemized bill certified by a hospital official. Three years of legal hassles began...
...Died. Helen Landsdowne Resor, 77, widow of Stanley Burnet Resor, longtime (1916-1955) president and chairman (1955-1961) of J. Walter Thompson, the nation's second biggest advertising agency (estimated 1963 billings: $450 million), herself a vice president and director for more than four decades, renowned for her sprightly copywriting ("The skin you love to touch") and pioneering use of famous name testimonials (Eleanor Roosevelt once endorsed White Owl cigars); after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...self in this unholy place. She finds her courage, she knows she will not break or punk out. The purpose of the play is this epiphany, and in the unsparing childlike ardor of Julie Harris' performance, the moment is as theatrically galvanizing as that of the child Helen Keller learning her first word in sign language...
...VENETIAN AFFAIR by Helen MacInnes. 405 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...year drearily short of good novels, a skillful handling of these goings-on has made Helen Maclnnes' book a runaway bestseller. Author Maclnnes also clearly deserves some sort of votive offering from the Central Intelligence Agency. The Venetian Affair, in fact, is likely to do more for the CIA's image than a dozen apologias by Allen Dulles. Take the CIA man who tries to enlist the reluctant critic in the international struggle...