Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Lynn White Jr. of Mills College, who says he won't be satisfied until he hears a woman say with pride, "I'm a housewife," can rest at ease. Whenever I go to the store or take the baby to the doctor, etc., I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I'm Frank's wife and Trip's mother. What could be better? I've been wanting to tell the world how proud and happy I am to be a housewife, and here is my chance...
...contest to get a satellite into orbit, and we're way ahead on this." He was overruled. In the astonishing 1955 decision to divorce satellite development from weaponry, the Vanguard was accepted as having more "dignity." Snorted Wernher von Braun at the time: "I'm all for dignity. But this is a cold-war tool. How dignified would our position really be if a man-made star of unknown origin suddenly appeared in our skies...
Connecticut Businessman Tunney and said: "I'm happy to share this award with Gene-and I'd be just as happy, if need be, to share my last dollar with...
...York Daily News Capital Columnist Gwen Gibson reconnoitered the Washington front, reported a withdrawal in many quarters. The foremost reducers: Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 164 Ibs. (down 20 Ibs. in a year); Attorney General William P. Rogers, 170 Ibs. (lost ten); New York's Republican Representative Kenneth B. Keating, 155 Ibs. (down ten). Champion slenderizer: Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger, now a skinny (for his six feet) 163 Ibs.-30 Ibs. less than he weighed about four months...
...Torrilhon detects myxedema (underactive thyroid) in the swollen eyelids, sparse lashes, dry hair and "shivering, apathetic aspect" of the bride in the renowned canvas, The Peasant Wedding. (Critic Gilbert Highet saw the bride as "a healthy, blowsy heifer," whose smirk and downcast eyes hide unseemly thoughts: "I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband, but he is rich.") In the five sightless beggars stumbling into a ditch in the famous Parable of the Blind, Torrilhon sees a whole ophthalmological catalogue. From left to right, he diagnoses pronounced pemphigus (a skin disease...