Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess of Windsor divulged to the readers of Vogue that the life of a brilliant international hostess is strewn with heartaches and pitfalls. "Any dinner of more than 16 people," wrote the Duchess, "I consider enormous. More than eight persons means no souffle-always a melancholy omission . . . Anybody who entertains a lot runs the risk of falling into a rut... The hostess who relies upon memory alone may find herself repeating to friends precisely the same dinner, down to the entremets, that she provided six months before. It is a great pity that Mr. Thomas Watson's efficient International...
...many phases of the U.S. and world economy, did corporation stories and FORTUNE'S monthly Business Roundup, conducted a column (Books & Ideas), wrote editorials and such notable politico-economic articles as "Socialism by Default," an analysis of the U.S. drift toward collectivism. He was also coauthor, with LIFE's Charles J. V. Murphy in 1945, of The Lives of Winston Churchill, and helped edit and summarize conclusions of the first Harriman report on Europe (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947) and the Hoover commission reports...
...Arkansas Governor Sidney McMath, had a thought for the ducks. Said he: "These ducks live to be five years old at most. We hit them when they're between two and three years old, the governor and I figure, so they don't really miss much of life...
...None of these does them any good. Actually, it is hard for overanxious people to win, no matter what they do: those who practice rigid self-control in normal times are likely to break down in a crisis. However, Drs. Ruesch and Prestwood believe that people "who in daily life . . . might miss their streetcars or forget their umbrellas . . . tend to tolerate their anxiety in emergency situations much better," because they have discharged their anxiety little by little...
...method which usually works. Trie doctors do not advocate rocking or dandling grownups, but they insist that an adult's need to share his anxieties, preferably with a loved one, is as great as an infant's. "The successful management of anxiety generated in daily life seems possible only through the process of sharing and communication," the researchers conclude. "[This] is the process which is basic to all interpersonal relations from babyhood...