Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss them. But we have learned to love another country, and its liberty...
This is the simple story told by Mrs. Heiner in her autobiography, Hearing Is Believing (World Publishing Co.; $2), which this week goes into its second printing. Now president of Cleveland's famed Hearing and Speech Center and a trustee of the American Hearing Society, Mrs. Heiner for the past 13 years has campaigned for a better understanding of the problems faced by the five million-odd deaf people in the U.S. She has promoted schools and clinics for the training of deaf children, advocated better job placement, arranged for special hearing-aid wiring in theaters, concert halls...
...adjustment to deafness, Mrs. Heiner argues, lies for the most part with the individual. Mechanical devices have worked marvels; surgery may bring even greater advances. The catch is, Mrs. Heiner says, that too many deaf people, because of false vanity or personal eccentricity, refuse to take advantage of their opportunities for hearing what is going on about them. Says she: "If you really want to hear for sure, a way will be found. You may have to 'listen' in some unorthodox way, but some magnificent law of compensation makes acceptable substitutions...
...Mrs. Turley was no Sarah,* but there are few cases on record of childbearing at 59. In the 18th Century, Lucas Debes wrote of a Scandinavian woman who supposedly became pregnant at 103. Pliny reported that Cornelia of the family of Serpius bore a son at 60. Probably the oldest case known to scientific record, reported in 1882, is a Scottish woman who gave birth to her 22nd child...
...Mrs. Ruth Lawrence of Birmingham, Ala., was pretty quick with a sewing machine. But like other housewives, she found it slow going when she had to rip what she had sewn. With Merritt L. Walls, a gadget-minded ex-G.I, Mrs. Lawrence worked out the first needle that will quickly rip a seam by "unlocking" the bobbin stitch. When the Lawrence-Walls "ripper" was first demonstrated a month ago, Birmingham housewives bought 5,000 (at $1 each) in four hours. Last week the inventors granted exclusive manufacturing rights to the Oilman Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of Parker...