Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sayings Moore decided on were "Fools Rush In . . ." (in the window a little lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...
...people of St. Francis-in-the-Fields consider themselves a long way from Christian perfection. Says Rector Clingman: "We're not good people. We're not a collection of saints but a group of sinners . . . who are trying to live by the lines from St. Paul: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners...
Lend an Ear attempts other targets with varying aim: those squalid Latin American tourist villages where hot sex and heavy gunfire are hourly occurrences in the public square; a bandleader and his wife sweating to live up to the lurid-and contradictory-bulletins the columnists issue about them; an old-fashioned Friday afternoon dancing class, in which the Penrod motif loses out to the pretty-pretty. There are the usual-all-too-usual-dance numbers in Lend an Ear, and some pleasantly forgettable tunes...
...neurotics is just what Dr. Frank N. Allan, of Boston's Lahey Clinic, might call them-but he has an even more encouraging word for their disease. Four years ago he thought up a new category for people who can live with their jitters if they have to-"benign nervousness...
Died. Dorothea Thompson Brande, 55, bestselling authoress (her self-help guide, Wake Up and Live, published in 1936, sold more than 400,000 copies); of a heart ailment; in Boston...