Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Privileged Class. In Milwaukee, before Detective Charles Littnan arrested a 19-year-old he was chasing on suspicion of burglary, the boy shouted back: "You can't shoot me. I'm a teen-ager...
...replacing James Anast, 40, former aide to Federal Aviation Boss Pete Quesada. Anast was made president last April, soon showed he planned to be the boss. He politely notified Founder William Lear, 57, who controls the company, not to visit the plant without forewarning Anast (replied Lear: "I'm going to make believe, young man, that I did not hear that"). Showing who is boss, Bill Lear, without warning, turned to Director Handschumacher at the quarterly board meeting, asked if he would take over. Says Lear of Handschumacher, a former Lear vice president, who left in 1957 to become...
Despite popular overworking of the gag, "I'm allergic to work." authentic cases of this condition are medical rarities. Now two physicians report (in the Annals of Internal Medicine) a well-attested case that showed up-not surprisingly-in the Army...
...from being wolflike, he was a Little Lord Fauntleroy who threw temper tantrums and suffered from asthma. Much of Proust's boyhood had bucolic charm. At Illiers (Combray in the novel), Dr. Proust's home town, the family romped along the hawthorn hedges of the Méréglise Way (later Swann's Way) or ambled along a winding river (later the Guermantes Way). On the lawns of the Champs Elysées, the 14-year-old played at prisoner's base and puppy love with perky Marie de Benardaky (a model of Gilberte...
...lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied, "I'm so sorry; I prepared incest by mistake...