Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ardent Stevensonian Jane Warner Dick stumped for her longtime friend and Illinois neighbor Adlai in his 1948 gubernatorial campaign; in 1952, taking time off from social-welfare work, she became vice chairman of the National Volunteers for Stevenson. In 1956 she took to the hustings again, proved herself as a front-line speaker and strategist capable of winning over almost everyone but her Republican husband. Office Equipment Executive Edison Dick. Last week the petite, 54-year-old grandmother of five was again working madly for Adlai, this time as the newly appointed U.S. representative on the Social Commission of UNESCO...
...port, which is already in operation, will end Yemen's dependence on its hated British-owned neighbor, Aden. It was dredged out of a sandspit near the fly-infested city of Hodeida by 300 Russian technicians, plus uncounted Yemeni laborers. Not to be outdone, the Chinese Communists are building a modern highway from Hodeida to the ancient walled city of Sana (altitude: 7,260 ft.), Yemen's oldest capital. Every day, some 2.000 Red Chinese toil shoulder to shoulder with 3,000 of their Yemeni brothers, all the while singing the great ballads of the Chinese proletariat...
Through all this she remains a bit of a square and a bit naive; according to her friend and neighbor, Walter Slezak. "A certain line of smut goes past her." She is still awed by some occasions. Before a television appearance,, she had the shakes so badly that Jack Paar had to wrap her in his bathrobe, like a Channel swimmer. But most of the time, she is unshakable and very much in charge of things. "If I were having a frontal lobotomy," she says, "I'd tell them how to do it, like 'try going in through...
...suffer from the "poultricidal tendencies" of MacDonald. She is nearer, but not completely in, the no man's land?and Everywoman's country?of such writers as Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Cornelia Otis Skinner (Nuts in May), Sally Benson (Junior Miss) and Phyllis Mc-Ginley, a Larchmont neighbor and close friend, whose light verse parallels, to some extent, the everyday materials of Jean Kerr's prose.-But Phyllis McGinley is a deeper, more sentient writer to whom humor is seldom an end in itself...
...cars; and Port Huron, Mich., ordered three police cars and two trucks. The city manager of Kennewick, Wash., got so carried away by Mariani's plea that he not only issued orders for five new city cars, but went out and bought a new Buick Invicta, talked a neighbor into buying...