Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bravos for "The Executive Wife" [March 4]. An executive's home (and that includes mamma) is his castle, and any executive's wife worth her title is a happy homemaker, uses her energies to relax her husband's strife-weary brain and soaks his swollen feet after he treads the corporate jungle all day. Let's hope the corporations stop infiltrating the closed family circle...
NOBODY laughed when TIME'S Montreal Bureau Chief Byron Riggan sat down to relax one night last week after TIME published (in its Canadian edition) his story of a reign of terror in Montreal's tenderloin district, but a couple of people frowned. What bothered Riggan was that the frowning men were standing in his doorway, one of them holding a knife. Angered by the story, the two hoodlums began to beat Riggan, then fled leaving the reporter, only mildly injured, with the always welcome certainty that his reporting had an audience. See PRESS, Reader Response...
...Elliott he found a man perfectly attuned to his own theories of running. "I want him running only fast enough to win," says Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick, hen-scratching strike, Jumbo is positive that his protégé, who once ran the mile in 3:59 in California last June, can do it in 3:55 if pressed...
Again and again executive wives themselves state firmly that the only sensible approach to the goal of being an ideal executive wife is to relax and forget about emulating a prototype. As Mrs. Charles Vychopen, wife of the traffic director of Slick Airways, put it: "You can't afford to get too inhuman about everything, and you can't be too sophisticated about how you act. The best thing is just to try to be yourself...
...standards of guaranteed order. But," she added, "psychologically, these are the very guarantees which we are not ready to provide." In the absence of institutions which would enforce "the fact that we all have to live together," Miss Ward outlined four suggestions which the West should explore to help relax tensions...