Word: needed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linens, rare books and antiques. They were hobnobbing with the great and near-great, but they never forgot to write to Mama. Sara Delano Roosevelt had tried to break up her son's romance with Eleanor; nevertheless, she was an indulgent mother and a friend in time of need. The "thousand thanks" were for an unexpected $500 windfall from...
...silver twin-engine C-46-one of seven being readied for take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
Variety bluntly headlined that MET OTELLO PREEM FIZZLES, and grumbled that "it was a mediocre affair" bringing out "the static quality of opera at its worst." Variety saw no TV future for opera until it was "devised specially for the medium. It will need new sets, new costumes, new staging, new makeup. And new singers. Singers who look the part as well as sing it. Otherwise-video speaking-it rates...
...indictment. "I have not been to church since confirmation," declared Bobby-Soxer Karin Eriksson; "I don't want to be a slave to any God." "And I don't go to church because I cannot stand the overbearing condescending manners of preachers," stated Gunnel Sandstrom. "What we need," said 18-year-old Gustaf Renneus of Kungsholm, "is a priest who is also a sportsman, one who talks our language without any humbug...
...clinic, says Pressly, both doctors and patients are better off. The doctors can take time off for vacations or for refresher courses; the patients get more thorough care. A general practitioner, he thinks, can take care of 85% of the people who are sick; only about 15% need specialists. In his early days, 90% of his practice was home calls, 10% office. Now the percentage is nearly reversed. Says he: "People realize they get more for their money in a clinic or a doctor's office...