Word: schoolgirlisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present crisis of indifference, Gruenther understands that no alliance is stronger than the will to support it. "We can stand criticism, but we cannot stand indifference," he says. His method is to expound to anyone who will listen-to groups of manufacturers, parliamentarians, schoolgirl choirs-the necessity, importance, and stature of NATO...
...prosecution was conducted by District Attorney William Travers Jerome, relative of Winston Churchill's. "He struck," cried Thaw's lawyer (who based his defense on "the unwritten law"), "for the purity of the home ... of American womanhood." When Evelyn came to court, dressed like an innocent schoolgirl in Fauntleroy collar and demure chapeau, crowds almost killed her with kindness, and the riot squad was rushed to the scene. The first trial ended in a hung jury, but in the second, Thaw was acquitted on grounds of insanity...
GREECE The Red Boss's Wife It was a case of free love at first sight when Comrades Niko Zachariades and Roula Koukoula looked one another over that summer day in Athens in 1945. Roula, dark-eyed and bosomy, already had a husband, having as a village schoolgirl run off with a Communist schoolteacher 14 years her senior. Niko, who had just arrived home from three years in Dachau, already had a Czech wife and a son. But such encumbrances can be voided when a girl Communist is ambitious, or when the man is Niko Zachariades, Communist boss...
...Just 14 hours and 37 minutes after she waded into the water at Cape Griz-Nez, France, blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 17, staggered ashore beneath the white cliffs of Dover. The pretty Canadian schoolgirl, first person ever to swim the icy waters of Lake Ontario (TIME, Sept. 20), was the youngest ever to swim the English Channel...
...pale, peaked schoolgirl in the Serbian market town of Bagrdan, Ljubinka Milosavljevic, according to one of her teachers, "never particularly distinguished herself in anything." But the necessities of war and the peculiar demands of Communist ideology brought out unsuspected talents in this rural railroad switchman's daughter. By 1941, at the age of 24, mousy little Ljubinka had become one of the chief organizers of Communist partisan resistance in her home area, and, as the years passed and Tito Communism became the law of the land, Ljubinka's gifts carried her to loftier and loftier posts...