Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children with toe-the-line discipline. "If all parents today were as strict as I was, we wouldn't have so many brats and little vandals," she says. Ben was seldom allowed to do what most other boys did, and he suffered accordingly. He and his younger sister Hitty were sent to a small fresh-air school where they sat in felt bags on cold days, emerging at intervals to warm themselves by folk dancing on a wooden platform. Even at ten Ben towered over his contemporaries, and his folk dancing was a favorite entertainment of the boys...
...Spock failed to make enough money to pay his Manhattan office rent. Then, one by one, patients came, and both mothers and children throve on the friendliness and reassurance of the young doctor who was as interested in finding out how a boy got along with his new baby sister as he was in giving inoculations. He was something of a presence, especially to little girls. "When he patted the glands in your throat, you felt you'd been blessed," one ex-patient remembers with a sigh. He wore a business suit rather than a white coat which might...
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, 58, asbestosexed playboy; and platinum blonde Anita Frances Roddy-Eden, 29, dancer and songwriter; in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was her first; she was his ninth. For a few tense seconds, Manville mistook his fianćee's twin sister and matron of honor, Mrs. Juanita Roddy-Eden Patifio, for the bride, but recovered quickly, lit a cigarette and got married (by the mayor of New Rochelle) to the right girl...
Ever since a Louisiana federal court struck down the unit ad rate used by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its afternoon sister the States (TIME, June 9), some 170 other dailies which also use the unit rate have been waiting to see what the decision would mean to them. Last week they got the bad news. Federal Judge Herbert Christenberry 1) formally ordered the T-P to quit its unit rate (which forces an advertiser to put ads in both the papers to get in either one), and 2) put the paper's future ad rates under court...
Carrie. Polished movie version of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, with Jennifer Jones and Laurence Olivier as star-crossed lovers (TIME, June...