Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swiveling his busy 16-mm. movie camera as he tours the U.S. this week: Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, 63, Western-minded Premier of Pakistan (pop. 80 million), the U.S.'s stoutest ally in South Asia...
Soon he could not only reel off the names of the Presidents in order and without a slip, but he also mastered their dates, parties, terms, major accomplishments. When he got better, his parents took him driving around the Jersey countryside. One day in nearby Elberon (pop. 985), the Frankels came across a wooden sign in the window of an old private garage, bearing the crude message...
...Cards. Behind the McDaniel-fortified pitching staff, the Cards' aging stars are bursting with new life. At 36, First Baseman Stan Musial is no longer able to play through both games of a doubleheader, has a little trouble now and then getting his legs to catch up with pop fouls. But he can still hit a baseball with deadly precision, is second in the league in batting (.342), homers (21), and runs batted in (67). Giant castoff Shortstop Al Dark, 34, is hitting a solid .295, holds the infield together with his big glove and his spark-plugging chatter...
Loving You (Paramount) is an authorized pseudo biography of the professional career of Elvis Presley. The only substantial departure from fact is that the movie's Deke Rivers is a clean-living Texas orphan, whereas Elvis is actually a clean-living Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just...
...That, Pop? In Chicago, Psychologist Stanley Mitchell, telling parents that they could eliminate juvenile delinquency by whispering good thoughts into their youngsters' ears as they slept, said: "The kids wouldn't hear, but their subconscious minds would, and this would build a solid relationship between parents and child...