Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets), he was tapped as a fast-rising comer, sent to the Naval War College ('58), then got the key job of aircraft readiness officer for the Atlantic Fleet. Says his wife Louise: "He is always reading technical manuals and the big policy-type journals, the kind the admirals and generals say should be read. He is one of those lucky men-his work is his hobby...
...unemployment compensation. Pennsylvania's Joe Clark dashed off his second "Dear Lyndon" letter proposing that liberals have more say in policymaking. And even back in Texas, the liberal Young Democrats baited Johnson (209-73) for not being liberal enough, sent their resolution around the U.S. for Democrats to read...
...Tokyo was quiet again. The royal couple ate an early supper, read the evening papers, watched themselves for a while on TV. Finally, the 80-year-old Chief Ritualist and his wife brought in the four silver trays with the 26 rice cakes that would remain on the bedroom altar for three days to ensure the early arrival of an heir. At 10 p.m., lights went out at the Eastern Palace...
...ageless person of Orphan Annie is rape. Even Peanuts, a comic with its points for young and old, is often a subtle dose of child psychology. Last week a comic created and drawn just for the kiddies-and, what's more, for kiddies too young to read-was running in eight papers (combined circ. 2,834,068),* and forcing reluctant parents to the piano and the kazoo...
...this film will have, for the host of avid movie experts, the same kind of historic interest that the picaresque novel contains for the smaller group of people who still read novels. One cannot fully appreciate the modern motion picture without having some idea of the laff riots of yesteryear, when faces served principally as background for pies, and pants could be counted on to be torn off in the middle of Main Street...