Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Learning to live with diabetes is tough -especially tough for children. The careful diet and the regular shots of insulin may become a painful, depressing routine for them. The well-meant sympathy of parents and friends may make diabetic children begin to think of themselves as permanent invalids...
...hopefully waited for a Government subsidy which never came, and for some real interest from the airlines. Last week, aroused by Rickenbacker's talk, Boeing announced that it will set aside $20 million of its own money to complete a "new prototype" jet airliner by 1954. If Boeing meant business, it would have to work fast to catch up with Britain's long lead...
...balconies and debauchery at Maxim's with Lolo, Frou Frou, Mimi, Yvette and Nicolette. Everyone works very hard at being gay, but somehow this Merry Widow is not always as lighthearted as it might be, perhaps because the makers of the picture tell the story as if they meant it. Valuable touches of insouciance are provided by Una Merkel as the widow's maid and Richard Haydn as a Marshovian baron...
Lure of the Wilderness (20th Century-Fox) is a title presumably meant to describe Jean Peters, a shapely swamp girl who runs around Georgia's Okefenokee mudflats dressed in tight-fitting buckskin shirt and trousers and armed with a bow & arrow. Jean lives in the swamp with her father (Walter Brennan), who has been hiding out from the law for eight years because he once killed a man in self-defense. One day a handsome youth (Jeffrey Hunter) ventures into the Okefenokee to search for his missing dog, and stumbles on Jean. What is this strange, perplexing passion that...
...meant to stand alone or is it part of some grander scheme? For many years the U.S. publishing world has buzzed with rumors of a "big" Hemingway novel which would dwarf anything he had previously written. Across the River and into the Trees (TIME, Sept. 11, 1950) was said to be an interim job. With publication last week in LIFE of The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway was ready to throw some light on his work and hopes. Said he, in reply to a cable from TIME...