Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work on this year's review and economic estimate for 1955 got under way in November, under the direction of Senior Editor Joe Purtell. Associate Editor Osborn Elliott, writer of the story, and Jane Meyerhoff. the researcher assigned to the project, began drafting the first of the detailed queries that went out to TIME correspondents...
...completeness is your aim, choose an author who is easily embraced, that is, whose works you can collect, assemble, and see as a whole. Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Stendhal, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold-such writers are not too voluminous; each one has kept up a steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers...
Divorced. By Jane Wyman, 40, Oscar-winning cinemactress (Johnny Belinda): Fred Karger, 38, Hollywood composer and orchestra leader, her third husband; after two years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...real ambition of my public service." That ambition was to effect the transfer of the Forest Service from the Agriculture Department to Interior. "If Forestry is not transferred," wrote Ickes, "I will feel that I am a bankrupt intellectually and emotionally, and I undoubtedly will resign." His wife, Jane Dahlman Ickes, thought that "I ought not to resign in any event because, as she sees it I am too valuable to the country in this time of crisis. However, I regard this as the overestimation that a sweet wife who is in love is likely to place upon her husband...
...were nearly as sticky. Betty Furness left her refrigerators long enough to fly to Hollywood to replace ailing Joan Blondell in Let's Face It, with Bert Lahr and Vivian Elaine. She might more sensibly have remained in Manhattan. On NBC. Kraft TV Theater's adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma was so filled with feminine squeals, flutterings on tiptoe and elfin men that it seemed to be played by an entire company of Mary Kays and Johnnies; on ABC, Kraft had better luck with Run for the Money, featuring Jamie Smith and Phyllis Love, a drama...