Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale, marriage to a Yale historian, and finally a job at Bryn Mawr. She had an alarming habit of mislaying spectacles, important documents and salary checks, and a curiously housewifely approach to research ("I always put different topics on different colored pages. If I haven't a pink paper, I take a white paper and write 'PINK' on the top"). As a teacher she inspired a generation of girls with a love of history, as a scholar added considerably to what is known as the story of the British Empire, as an administrator was largely responsible...
...regained his strength. She fed him on human baby food, soft-boiled eggs and fruit, and she spanked him when he was naughty. He would look at her reproachfully after a spanking, but he generally behaved for a while, at least. He would pick up a rag or a paper towel and try to help Rosemarie when she was cleaning the room. His toilet manners became very good; he always went to the proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that he made to express emotion...
...Only a Paper Crown. When Nat made his fall debut on NBC, he recalled, "They were kind of worried about our rating in the South, but it's just as good there as any place else." Yet the show is still unsponsored, and Producer-Director Bob Henry believes that the potential sponsors have been held off by unwarranted fears about the color problem...
Born Nathaniel Coles in Montgomery, Ala., Nat dropped the "s" to accommodate the "King" nickname after a nightclub owner put a golden paper crown on his head. He moved as a child to Chicago, where his father became pastor of the True Light Baptist Church and his mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless...
...that the summer evening schedules of the three networks are clogged each week with no fewer than 65 programs that can prompt millions of viewers to mutter: "This is where I came in." Last week, because of the rerun deluge, New York's tabloid Mirror announced that the paper will simply stop reviewing TV for the summer...