Word: lona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...
...childless couple, Charles E. Dameron and his wife Lona were delighted when in 1955 they were able to adopt an eight-month-old German orphan. Dori, a bright-eyed blonde, was duly examined by German authorities, found to be normal, was sent to live with the Damerons in their $19,000, three-bedroom home in suburban Silver Spring, Md. As Dori grew older, Dameron prepared her for a delightful surprise: she would soon, he told her one day, have a baby brother to play with...
George Docherty quit his job and went back to school so he could enter the University of Glasgow and prepare for his ministerial studies. During the war he joined the community movement centered on the Scottish island of lona (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), and distinguished himself for his work with young people in the Glasgow slums...
...Editors lona and Peter Opie spent seven years looking through haystacks of diaries, letters, books and plays to find their needling rhymes & riddles. They dug into the histories of kings and queens, wits and wags, drunks and druids, consulted everyone from George Bernard Shaw to their own children, aged six and four...
...this chilly consensus was melted last week by a powerful voice that spoke up in the cadets' behalf. New York's Cardinal Spellman announced that he had asked the three Catholic men's colleges in his archdiocese-Fordham University, Manhattan College and lona College-to admit the cadets. All three colleges said they would-adding that no cadet would be allowed to play on any varsity team. "To err is human," said Francis Cardinal Spellman, "to forgive, divine...