Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, TIME sent queries to its correspondents in a dozen cities, including one to TIME'S Stockholm stringer, E. M. Salzer. He went to Uddevalla, Sweden, to talk to Lisa's family, and there learned that the family name, now Bernstone, had been changed from Anderson. Hardly had the story reached the newsstands, when Miss Fremd received an excited call from Lisa. "Is that true about my name being Anderson?" she asked. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted. I think it is the funniest thing in the world. I sent my father a cable and asked...
...through all of that growth and most of the city's history, like a golden strand, ran the name of Mellon...
...unrelayed TV transmission range. Language differences bar relay coast-to-coast hookups. Most drums can send only cut & dried messages, like those which Western Union puts out for unimaginative U.S. customers. The drum service is usually person-to-person, and each member of the tribe has his drumbeat code name, e.g.: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing," or, "Don't go where the lucky fellows are taking women along lest you get into trouble...
Piaf (real name Gassion) tries to explain in English that when she first started singing as a spindly child in the streets of Paris "I cried . . . cried, without tears. You understand?" What she means is that she bawled her songs. Even now, France's famed chanteuse needs no microphone; she sings out, nasally, a little as if she were singing through a papercovered comb. But with her infallible feel for beat and flow, Piaf fans find it pretty exciting...
Holfway thought the talk, "Roly God. We Praise Thy Name." chant of the Holy Name Society, should be heard from St. Paul's Church, necessitating the closing of St. Benedict's door...