Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only Eighteen. Handsome Bob Sweeny had been around (as sometime playmate to Five and Dime Heiress Hutton and Lady Stanley), and he was twice Joanne's age. But Mother thought the match was just right: "Eighteen is a wonderful age to marry. I was married young. Age doesn't make any difference. Look at the Duke and Duchess-she's a few years older than he is,* and they're a divine couple." After the wedding, glitter returned to Mother's life; she quit the dress shop, rented a penthouse in Paris. Meanwhile, at home...
...advanced training in doubletalk, no classroom in the Communist world last week could match Peking's Huai Jen Hall, site of the fourth meeting of Red China's National People's Congress. Led off by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, July 8), Peking's Marxist mandarins popped up, one by one, to assure the pseudo Parliament that the nation was in splendid shape. Then, one by one, they cited statistics demonstrating that the best-laid plans of Mao's men have gone agley...
...trouble is that from the start, Secretary Humphrey's Treasury failed to match the prices other borrowers were willing to pay for money. When the Treasury sold its first longterm, 30-year issue in 1953, it pegged the interest rate at a below-market 3¼% an average 3¾% for corporate issues; the bonds soon became known as "Humphrey's Dumpties," dropped far below par, and still sell at 93.26. A 40-year issue at 3% in 1955 has tumbled to 87.24. The result, says Humphrey, is that "we must therefore sell mostly short-term securities, which...
...lacks only the zither-strumming of The Third Man. A secret is beaten out of a stubborn woman; a doublecrosser is shot dead in a forest; a valuable convoy of goods is lost, found, lost again. Throughout this tapestry of violence, Asch and his "good" operators -Kowalski, Stamm, Soeft-match wits with the "bad" operators, Hauk and Greifer. Both sides use the naive U.S. occupation forces for their own purposes, and Asch and company even capture a prisoner-of-war camp from its U.S. guards in order to kill the villainous Hauk...
...novelist (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and dramatist (Bury the Dead, The Gentle People), Irwin Shaw has set no worlds afire. But there are few American writers who can match him for consistent readability and excitement in the field of the short story. His famous The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939) says nearly all that there is to say about urban love; his vengeful Sailor Off the Bremen, after 18 years, is still powerful enough to make a reader wince. This new collection never quite reaches the same heights, but is similarly concerned with love and adventure, is written...