Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Mickey Mouse, whose birthdays are reckoned from the moment of his conception (in Walt Disney's mind in a drawing room on a westbound train) rather than from his first public appearance (in Steamboat Willie, 1928), turned 21. Father Walt and a few oldtimers honored their hardworking star (who has appeared in more pictures than any other actor in Hollywood*) with a quiet, off-the-lot anniversary dinner...
...other times, Albert operates as if he had a one-track mind and knew only one play. He once called the same play six times in a row. Says Frankie: "It's just like playing checkers, the idea is to fool the other fellow...
...Maine woman, a widow of 45, and she lived alone. When she had made up her mind to commit suicide, she laid her chin on the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun and pulled the trigger. The charge tore through her tongue, palate and nose, went on through the front part of the brain and out through the forehead...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...
Millicent Carey Mclntosh believes in speaking her mind. She has been doing it for 26 years as a teacher of girls (at Bryn Mawr and Brearley), and for the past year as dean of Barnard, Columbia University's little sister. Last week, at the New York Herald Tribune's annual forum, Dean Mclntosh made one of her most outspoken speeches, which had considerably more muscle than the inaugural address of Columbia's President Eisenhower (TIME, Oct. 25). Said...