Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rented house in Los Angeles, where his father was assistant general manager of a Hearst paper, the Los Angeles Examiner. When Adlai was six years old, the family returned to Bloomington, Ill., where both Mr. & Mrs. Stevenson had grown up. There Adlai and his sister Elizabeth ("Buffie"), three years his elder (now Mrs. Ernest Ives, wife of a wealthy, retired U.S. diplomat), grew up in a big Victorian house at 1316 East Washington Street...
Flatlanders & Hillsiders. A Crier touch of satire is its tongue-in-cheek division of the world into "Hillsiders" (the residents of Hollywood Hills) and "Flatlanders" (everybody else). Rose occasionally uses the nicknames to needle racial intolerance. Sample: "Flatlanders are O.K., but how would you like your sister to marry...
...defense budget for the next decade. Secretary Dan Kimball announced that plans were being drawn to build not one, but ten, 60,000-ton aircraft carriers, each larger than any carrier now afloat.* To be built at the rate of one a year, the new super-carriers would be sister ships of the U.S.S. Forrestal, whose keel will be laid this summer. They would have 1,000-ft. flight decks, fully retractable islands to allow more landing space, and a cruising speed of well over 30 knots. Some later models, said Kimball, might even be powered by atomic turbines. Estimated...
...Treasury the idea of printing the names as an experiment in getting the refunds paid. The city desk assigned a special staff to compile lists of taxpayers owed $100 or more. The News expects to run the lists (totaling about 6,000 names) for almost two weeks. (Its sister papers, the Washington Times-Herald and the Chicago Tribune, began printing their own lists...
...sell or finance new houses." HOUSE & HOME, published by TIME Inc., is an outgrowth of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, THE MAGAZINE OF BUILDING, which has been split into two separate magazines to provide better coverage of the fast-growing building industry. HOUSE & HOME is published for residential building, while its sister publication, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM (circ. 45,000), will cover all other types of building (industrial, commercial, etc.). The monthly magazines will come out alternately, one every two weeks. HOUSE & HOME guaranteed its advertisers a trade circulation of 60,000, was such a success even before the first issue came off the press...