Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solomon reluctantly closed the Bible. "I cannot speak about my sister or our childhood days," he said. His quiet teacher's voice-he is a teacher of classical Hebrew at the school-showed neither affection nor dislike. "She is a very important person and I am a very simple man. I do not like to advertise...
Last Saturday, in the living room at Mikve Israel, Zvi mentioned the fact that Ana had given up her religion. But he was her father, and defended her. "Every person has a right to their own life," he said. "She is a grown woman now." He thought for a while. "She was a good daughter," he said, moving his left hand up & down for emphasis. "She was a good girl...
...prepared to wait until U.N. acts on his case. His equipment for the vigil: a knapsack, a bedroll, a portfolio, a portable typewriter, a copy of The Fountainhead, the United Nations World, and TIME. Said Crusader Davis: "If the U.N. can't establish the status of one person, it's plain to see that they cannot...
Protested: the will of Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, late publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; by her only daughter, Countess Felicia Gizyclca (exwife of ex-Patterson Columnist Drew Pearson). Felicia, who ran away from home at 18, had been left most of Cissie's personal effects, some real estate, and an income of $25,000 a year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that...
...Department of Commerce announced that the average income per person in the U.S. last year was $1,323-up $110 from 1946. Highest average among the 20 states which exceeded the national figure was Nevada's $1,842. New York was second with $1,781. Mississippi had the nation's lowest average...