Word: jill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Michael Foot, 36, pamphleteering Laborite M.P., onetime editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard, now editor (with Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's wife, M. P. Jenny Lee) of the Weekly Tribune (circ. 18,-ooo); and Jill Craigie, 35, author-director-producer of documentary films (The Way We Live); in London...
...During Portland, Ore.'s annual Christmas fairy tale parade the Jack & Jill float crashed into an automobile. Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after...
...Saturday Evening Post, oldest U.S. magazine, last week helped its brother celebrate, a birthday. The juvenile monthly Jack and Jill was ten years old. Rummaging through Jack and Jill's letters column (it draws 18,000 letters a year), the Post collected a piece on "Kids Believe the Darnedest Things." Some of the things they believe: that bird dogs fly, that "juvenile" means bad and "delinquent" means children, that Lincoln's address was Gettysburg, that when it rains it rains all over, and that radios are inhabited by entertaining little people who ought to be applauded and occasionally...
...Jack and Jill* had earned its birthday party, and the Post's plug. Curtis Publishing Co., which launched Jack and Jill as an experiment, then withdrew it from the newsstands during the war to save paper, had watched its mail circulation rise to nearly 500,000 (including 220 in Braille). Beginning with the anniversary issue, Jack and Jill will be back on the newsstands...
...wrote in a mode of grotesque comedy rarely found in recent American fiction. With the irresponsible zest of a primitive jokester, he reveled in the high jinks of such moronic subhumans as Jeeter Lester and Darling Jill, whom he twisted into creatures of ribald fantasy far removed from everyday human character...