Word: mind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday Pictorial, "Donna asked me if I would like to share the digs. I agreed. I watched her unpack. Donna had exquisite transparent cami-knickers, little lace panties, corsets, lots of nylons. We talked for a time. Then Donna gave me my first shock. She asked: 'Would you mind if I smoked a pipe...
...Billy, his flaming success at 34 is still a mystery. At St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute in Lawrenceville, Va., he was more interested in baseball and football than singing. Says he: "We thought guys in music were a little on the lavender side." He began to change his mind after winning an amateur-night singing contest in Washington's Howard Theater. By 1939, he had joined Earl ("Father") Hines's big band as a double-singing, and playing "trumpet in the worst degree." Says Billy: "I played fourth trumpet, and I'd have played fifth...
When Bonifacio Yturbide was three, a severe illness left him permanently blind. But Bonifacio, the son of Basque immigrant parents, had a good mind and a strong will. As he grew up, he found that insight could be at least a partial substitute for sight. "One thing that some blind persons ... do is to withdraw within themselves. I don't agree with this," he decided. Instead, he dug in hard at school work and activities; in his senior year at Reno (Nev.) high school he made a straight-A record and was elected president of his class...
Last week, after studying all the arguments, the FCC made up its mind, issued a 13-page "clarification" and "reexamination" of its views. The gist of the tortured Government prose: news broadcasts may "include the identified expression of the licensee's personal viewpoint...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward Weiss added that the chronic rheumatic whose trouble starts in the mind suffers from "chronic resentment," but does not realize it. The thing for doctors to do in such cases, he said, is to look for a "focal conflict" as well as for a focal infection. Otherwise, the doctor might do the patient harm by "well-meaning but mistaken" efforts to find a nonexistent physical cause; the real trouble might be an embittered marriage rather than an abscessed tooth...