Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale man who stole ten dollars from the Sister Kenny Polio Fund to aid infantile paralysis victims has been asked to return the money anonymously...
...mourning were ironbound. Even within the last 20 years, mourning still meant black garments, closed doors, no music, no parties, no entertainment. This mode of life lasted for five years after the death of a spouse, parent or child; three years and six months for a grandparent, brother or sister; two years for a cousin, aunt or uncle...
...Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most of his staff, which has long been baffled by the fact that he can, by turn, be boastful, humble, hard as nails and sob-sister soft. Although he spends six months of the year in his Miami home or in the Caribbean aboard his 71 -ft. cruiser, the High Tide, he is never out of touch with the paper, uses his ship-to-shore phone when necessary...
Menagerie is the reminiscence of a merchant seaman (Arthur Kennedy) about his life with mother (Gertrude Lawrence) and sister (Jane Wyman) in a shabby St. Louis flat across the alley from a dance hall. Mother, a onetime Southern belle long ago deserted by her husband, is a flibbertigibbet who clings to her airs of gentility, her magnolia-scented memories and a fierce desire to find a husband for her crippled, pathologically shy daughter...
...Government did not take over American Export Lines' 26,000-ton Constitution, which was launched in Quincy, Mass, last week. Unlike the United States, the 1,000-passenger Constitution was designed primarily as a commercial vessel, although she has many defense features. With her sister ship, the Independence, the $25 million Constitution will enter service between New York and the Mediterranean early next year...