Word: lots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farms, 237,000 small businesses. Riding a gravy train, 8,500,000 joined the "52-20 Club," by 1949 spent up to 52 weeks (average: 19) drawing $20 a week in special unemployment pay. Says Seattle Teacher Otto N. Larsen, 34, onetime B-29 instructor: "I think a lot of us got embarrassed over the loot we got from the Government...
...daily cross: milking the family cow. At first, chasing Rosemary across plusher neighbors' lawns was an excruciating embarrassment. But Pat soon learned "that people were not as interested in what I had or what I wore as in what I was . . . It healed me of a lot of insecurity to find out that if my cow gave people a laugh, I was doing them a favor...
...played spin-the-bottle at 13 and, perhaps too impetuously, eloped at 19. Currently he takes a sternly parental view: "We all know that indiscriminate kissing, dancing in the dark, hanging around in cars, late dates at this early stage can lead to trouble. And that you miss a lot of fun with the nicer play-by-the-rules crowd . . . Kissing is not a game. Believe me ... Kissing for fun is like playing with a beautiful candle in a roomful of dynamite...
...Record, weekly organ of the Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis: "The firing of Terry Brennan is a setback for the priests and laymen who are trying to remake the public image of Notre Dame from football factory to first class university. How will they ease the suspicion that a lot of Notre Dame supporters-including some wealthy donors-don't care whether classes are held or not, just so Notre Dame wins on Saturdays...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. The fictional season's most endearing bad little good girl, Holly Golightly, bewildered and a little afraid, in a lot of beds she never made...