Word: midday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, it was clearly a time of testing, as much a part of his medically prescribed regimen as his four weeks of bed rest and his three months of gradual convalescence. He was on a six-hour daily work schedule, with two hours off for lunch and midday rest. Into his office throughout the week paraded a succession of important callers: Secretary of State Dulles (twice alone and once with others), Attorney General Brownell (to discuss the President's upcoming message on changes in immigration laws), Economic Advisers Arthur Burns and Gabriel Hauge, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...their correspondence, and print 377,900,400 address labels a year besides with a barest minimum of error. Last week our circulation people in New York celebrated the 2,000,000 domestic milestone by inviting a hot jazz combo to the TIME & LIFE Building lobby for a midday jam session. At 540, many expected those electronic units to signal the event by lighting up like a pinball machine in a Saroyan play - but the machines went on unemotionally, clocking their way toward TIME'S third million...
This flexibility lasts throughout the day, which Joe can fill in numberless planned ways, from stripping tobacco to hauling feed in his truck, from supervising the work of a bulldozer, hired for $10 an hour, to stretching fence. The midday quitting time is 11:30 and, after a big meal, Joe stretches out on the parlor floor (which saves taking off pants and shoes to lie on a bed) for a half-hour nap to "let my eats settle." By 12:30 he is back at work. Ordinarily he stops at 6 or 7 o'clock, but in "pinchin...
...show business' most durable headliners, Musicomedienne Mary Martin and Britain's Playwright-Actor-Composer Noel Coward, braved the midday sun at Coward's home on the West Indian island of Jamaica to rehearse for a television Spectacular. On a Ford Star Jubilee program (CBS-TV, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T., Oct. 22), Mary will nostalgically warble tunes from her past hit musicals, be spelled by Coward, in his TV debut, husking some of his own melodic...
...Premier of Burma, U Nu, is visiting us," the President said at his press conference expressing "great gratification that he came over. The returning travelers and observers in that area have spoken of him in the most glowing terms as to ability and his leadership qualities." At midday in the White House, the President and his guest had lunch, and the President happily bonged his new gong...