Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a long period of winter hibernation, John L. Lewis issued forth to make a proud pronouncement: in 20 months the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (now fed by a 20? rake-off on every ton of coal mined) had paid out $68 million. Among other things, the fund had put 11,689 retired miners on $100-a-month pensions...
...Students. The Committee exists in order to take care of just such people. In the past it has received so little business that you would think all Harvard examinations were written by Addison and Steele. But since many of them read more as though they were written by L'il Abner, the Committee should be getting a much larger clientele...
...Dutch and Indonesians, gloomily suggested it might as well quit. Philippine Representative Carlos P. Romulo deplored the Council's "labyrinthine self-justifications." Australia's peppery Norman Makin cried that the Security Council could not "bury its head in the sands of Lake Success." Indonesia's L. N. Palar warned: "This is only the beginning of our war of self-defense...
...toothbrush may eventually give way to the Orajet, a device developed by Manhattan Dentist Charles L. Hyser (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943). Like many other dentists, Dr. Hyser has long been dissatisfied with the toothbrush. He has told patients that it does not do a very good job of cleaning, and may cause "abrasion cavities" by wearing off the enamel. A year and a half ago he started out to find something better. Last week, having cho sen the final design, he was ready to start 500-a-day production in a Mt. Vernon, N.Y. machine shop...
...begins as three young matrons in station-wagon suburbia learn that one of their husbands has run off with a feared and envied local charmer. Leaving the runaway husband's identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard-bitten humor, he pulls off an ending that is adroit but fair, surprising but credible, and warm yet not sticky with sentiment...