Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shameful Weakness. When the Irish took over their country in 1922, the nation had only one hospital that was less than 80 years old. Most hospitals were forbidding-looking piles, built as poorhouses and stand-by barracks in the prime ministry of Sir Robert Peel (who also helped make other medical history-see below). Now the Irish have built or completely rebuilt 82 hospitals, extended or overhauled 95 others, and have a total of 253 with 40,000 beds-near the top of the European scale. With the help of the new hospitals (plus new drugs), deaths from tuberculosis have...
...expert on life in English prisons, having herself served an eight-month term in 1950 after being convicted of knowingly cashing forged checks (she pleaded, and still pleads, not guilty). She is 40, pretty, a cousin of Bertrand Russell, and a great-great-grandniece of Sir Robert Peel.* In prison Author Henry was called "the lidy," and told, "You talk lovely, but it don't get you far, do it, if you end up here?" But she turned her experience to good account with Women in Prison, a 1952 British bestseller, and now with Yield to the Night, which...
...American in Damascus was worried about the prestige of his country. Here the Russians had spent half a million dollars building the biggest pavilion at the Damascus Fair, while the U.S. Government had refused to let him spend even $15,000. Harris Peel, the USIS chief in Damascus, cast about for "something that would steal the show" yet cost nothing. His solution: Cinerama, which had never before been shown outside...
...Peel talked the Cinerama people into providing the film, Warner Bros, into lending projectors, the U.S. Air Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama...
About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount). Shirley Booth, with her gilded Oscar (Best Actress of 1952, for her work in Come Back, Little Sheba) scarce beginning to peel, has already laid aside her dignity and gone for a summer's dunk in a tub of sentimental lather. For this film, based on a Vina Delmar novel, is pure soap opera, and it is the kind of suds that leaves a sticky ring around the mind. Shirley plays a part that is wallowingly reminiscent of John's Other Wife...