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Room for One More (Warner) makes an entertaining, sentimental comedy out of Anna Perrott Rose's 1950 bestseller about the trials and triumphs of foster parenthood as she and her husband experienced them. Playing the big-hearted Roses, Gary Grant and Betsy Drake (who are married in real life but have no children) apply limited funds and unlimited patience to raising two foster problem children, plus three of their...
...Word for It. The birth is a unique attempt at planned parenthood. Libya, a country of a few backward cities and oasis-speckled sand wilderness about three times the size of Texas, is the first nation brought into being solely by the United Nations. But it is a typical newborn of the sickly Arab world-born into poverty, cursed with ignorance, endowed with only a fighting chance to grow to maturity. The 1,050,000 Arabs of Libya have a word for independence-istiqlal-but little of the heritage to make it work...
...with a rush, many of us before we hit 20 And why not? Millions were overseas, som wounded and killers of fellow men before we ever had to shave . . . Upon returning horn with a chance of a free education, we combined that, many of us, with marriage an parenthood; and still in our very early 20s. Yes, we're a generation who can't remember when a bitter war wasn't raging somewhere Why, the first newspaper I recall seeing was the Herald Tribune's rotogravure section with pictures of the Sino-Japanese war in Manchuria...
...brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing on the lawn, than it is to start a new magazine when starving in an attic in the Village or be bursting with potential in the mailroom at $27.50 a week...
...Radio and gambling, cocktails and promiscuous fornication, soporifics and aphrodisiacs, television and motor trips and sports, preferably sports that threaten loss of limb, are all the fillers-in of deficient forms of life: witnesses to the disruption of the family, the renunciation of parenthood, the retreat from citizenship, the failure of education to make whole persons...