Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...
...wrong with our school system," said the board member. "We're not rewarding academic achievement. We're rewarding the best 'wellrounded' samplers." But other board members seemed content to leave the problem to a committee, which took it up several months ago after one parent complained. The committee has not been heard from since...
Died. J. Edward King, 56, longtime general manager of TIME Inc.'s subscription service division in Chicago and a vice president of the parent corporation since 1954, who in 1946 helped supervise the first changeover from manual to mechanical subscription handling in the publishing field and the development of subsequent electronic speedups in tabulation and mailing operations covering 11 million subscribers; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale...
...daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers lipstick and dresses to swimming and sweatshirts. Not an uncommon problem, one supposes,--yet the expression of fear on the girl's face as she tries to fit together her friend's attitude with her parent's impending divorce indicates that she is seeing it in a peculiarly painful way. "Love," the daughter cries at one point, "I never want to be in love...
Mother & Son. She writes economically about his early years in Asheville, N.C., where his mother kept a boarding house called the Old Kentucky Home, his father ran a marble yard, and each parent occupied a separate dwelling. Wolfe's seven brothers and sisters drifted aimlessly back and forth between the two, sleeping where they pleased; but the youngest child stayed with his mother. A little boy with long curls, Thomas Clayton Wolfe was not weaned until he was 3½, and slept beside his mother until he was "a great big boy." All this is background...