Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls. He lunches in S.-P.'s small dining room; one of his favorite dishes is hash. His home life is just as plain. A man who cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown wreck, sanded his own floors, put in plumbing and electricity. On his 80 acres he raises cattle (56 beefy Herefords) and corn (yield: no bu. per acre), enjoys gardening (from Bibb lettuce to small yews) and finishing furniture in his home workshop ("It's the scabbiest workshop you've ever seen...
Pinless Diapers. Diapers fastened with tabs of Velcro, a nonmetallic. Zipper-like fastener made of tiny nylon eyes and hooks (TIME, Sept. 8), will be put on sale by the Riegel Textile Corp. of Manhattan. Adjustable in size, the diapers can be secured by pressing two tabs together. Price: $3 for a box of three...
Electronic Watch. Bulova Watch Co. will put an electronic watch on sale next year. The watch will use transistors to eliminate mainspring and balance wheel (electric watches do away only with the mainspring), will weigh no more than a regular wristwatch...
...judge from the wares on the bookstore counters, anyone with a manuscript on his hands can find a publisher these days. Yet every year produces thousands of would-be writers whose work is so dreadful that even the most tolerant publishing firms will not put it in print. For these devotees of letters wait the "vanity presses," which print almost anything-at fees from the authors ranging between about $900 and $6,000. While there is nothing illegal in paying for the pleasure of seeing one's words in print, the Federal Trade Commission objects to vanity publishers...
...settlers were struggling with a cantankerous but unorganized mass of natives whose language, religion, law and customs were totally different from their own. This lively historical novel deals with the mid-century years when Oliver Cromwell, having beheaded King Charles I. marched into Ireland with his vengeful army to put a quietus to the Irish question...