Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muscovites, to whom their saints were fellow citizens, worshiped God in their city and their city in God. The rest of the world seemed more remote than the saints. Wrote Gogol: "Moscow is an old home-keeping person, it bakes bliny, it looks from afar and listens, without rising from the armchair, to the tale of what goes on in the world." Muscovites retained their simple faith, which often took the homey form of poetic superstition. Perhaps the most widespread legend was that the huge Tower of Ivan within the Kremlin was married to the Sukharev Tower, a cute little...
This year for the first time all the rooms in the Government's $540,000 Portillo Hotel were ready for skiers. Cost per person: $9 a day with meals. (Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 a day without meals.) Argentines and Americans, as well as Chileans, took the sun on Portillo's terraces, drank pisco sours†and watched the condors circle high above the glacial Lake of the Incas. Almost everybody turned in at 10 so as to be bright and early for the morning's fresh snow and perhaps a lesson from French...
Clearly, Detective Bascou decided, an inside job. Methodically he narrowed the suspects down to one: the only person present when each of the deaths occurred. His suspect was Head Nurse Demussy. He also dredged up what looked like a macabre motive: the nurse's divorced husband said that she was physically incapable of bearing children. Had she committed 17 mad murders of vengeance against women undergoing operations to make child-bearing possible? Nurse Demussy, after 22 solid hours of questioning, did not give the detective's theory much encouragement. Said she: "Do I look like a monster...
Divorced. Tommy Dorsey, 41, balding bandleader who is billed as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; by onetime Cinemactress Patricia Dane ("Tommy," she announced, "is the first person I'll have a date with when I return to Los Angeles"); in Reno...
Richard Sherman is a daring man who thinks he knows what goes on in a woman's head. He has written The Bright Promise in the first person feminine-as a wife's-eye view of an able, unstable husband whose career fluctuates between life on the dole and the brilliant editorship of a picture magazine. But despite the author's daring viewpoint, readers are not likely to know Amy Hardin Ellery any better than other heroines of women's magazine fiction...