Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vanishing American. Although he will be 70 next year, Douglas MacArthur has lost none of the West Pointer's bearing. For the past 34 years, he never missed a day's duty because of illness. In his plainly furnished office, he works seven days a week, composing directives by hand (he does not like to dictate) and buzzing for his aides when he wants them (he has banned telephones from his desk). He looks fit and much younger than his years; his hair, flecked with grey, is usually carefully brushed to cover a bald spot. The General lives...
...South Pacific, modest Jerry Coleman hit a modest .251 with Newark last year. During the winter to build himself up, he swung an overweighted bat in the cellar of his San Francisco home, faithfully executed 25 pushups morning & night. At week's end, Coleman had hit safely in seven consecutive games, had a fat .400 average. That was not as good as Rookie Johnny Groth's .439 for the Detroit Tigers; Groth, who had been picked in spring training as the most likely candidate for rookie-of-the-year (TIME, March 28), was leading the league...
Prudish parents have long been a favorite target of the psychiatrists. Puritanical homes are often blamed for giving children a neurotic attitude toward sex. But one psychiatrist thinks that modern parents can carry their modernism too far. Dr. Flanders Dunbar, 46, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and author of the 1947 bestseller Mind and Body (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), sounds the warning in her new book, out this week, Your Child's Mind and Body (Random House...
...been heard of in years. But sales were still under last year's. Retailers were hastily trying to clear out old merchandise, notably textiles, as new, lower-priced dresses reflecting the wholesale price cuts of the past few months came in. For the first time in seven years, women could buy neat, fashionable dresses for less than...
...Monty started 27 games, completed 20, won 18. In 1947 he graduated to a Class B league (Big State), won seven and lost seven in six weeks with Waco, then quit...