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...April, when he learned of its undesirable effects, which sometimes include a generalized neuritis, regardless of the sex and age of the patient. But last week Bluma Bursi was pink-cheeked and hearty. Said her daughter: "If she had her leg, she'd be able to do housework...
...defect was diagnosed in infancy before any corrective surgery had been devised. At 17, she had an early Blalock-Taussig operation, and another nine years later. Now 31, and married to Baltimorean Raymond W. Hepner Jr., she has a normal daughter almost three years old, and does her own housework...
...opposite direction. Only 13% of Germany's working mothers hold their jobs out of economic necessity. Most of the rest are furiously engaged in the race to keep up with the Müllers. with second cars, appliances and travel. One thing leads to another: appliances make housework more of a bore; travel and entertainment stir interests far from the Küche. According to a recent study, four out of five formerly docile hausfraus consider their lot unhappy, and most of them because they are "fed up with housework." With the divorce rate up and the birth rate...
...taken these charmingly unsophisticated mazes to their hearts, but the new affluence has not changed Grim Painter Van Velde. "I am still." says he. "the same lost thing that by the act of painting must reassure itself." Says a Paris friend and patron: "He sleeps, gets up, does his housework, sighs, laments, torments himself, destroys himself, feels remorse, walks, walks a great deal, eats, breathes, laughs, lies on the bed. puts his head in his hands, is lonely, is very lonely...
...until she was 76, when her arthritic hands could no longer hold an embroidery needle, that she started painting-just for something to do after the housework. When asked what artist of the past she admired, she said. "I've always liked Currier & Ives." Her paintings had the same nostalgic naivete; they were, as she put it, "Old-Timey." Sometimes she would do four paintings at a time to save paint ("I do the blue for one sky and then the three other skies"), and following her own rules, she always worked from the top down, filling...