Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the lesson which Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll of New Jersey read to his party colleagues last month when he won one of the few Republican victories in 1949 (TIME, Nov. 21). The lesson was read again last week by New York's independent-minded Senator Irving Ives...
...Teaches Lesson." The gift parcels from people like the Pierces, which for weeks had been streaming overseas from U.S. ports (the New York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world where Christmas was cherished. Some 30,000 of them went to Japan, which had the brightest holidays since the war, with gay, Oriental Santa Clauses smiling in front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from...
...Lesson in Technique...
There are many things to draw him there. He is an enthusiastic amateur Egyptologist; his 14-room apartment near the Bois de Boulogne is cluttered with Egyptian statuettes and old Dutch etchings. He also likes to take an occasional lesson in "harmonious coordination of mind and body" at Madame Codreano's "Center for Psycho-Motor Education" (see cut). But he is fascinated with the U.S. and pleased with the thought of staying a while. Moreover, if Conductor Munch grows on Boston, as last week seemed very likely, it was quite possible that Frenchman Munch might develop a taste...
...stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success to vanilla ice cream and teetotaling, lived sumptuously in Harlem, gambled and generously gave away his earnings (between...