Word: sitterly
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...sweeping positive judgements" which Olin Downes of the Times "would tremble to make." One need look back no further than last Sunday to find a column by Downes that must have given him chorea, if not epilepay. But remember, Murray, that he who is only a timid fence sitter will get splinters in uncomfortable places. Caldwell Titcomb...
When bespectacled, 51-year-old Dr. Albert H. Covner called the police to report that a baby sitter had stolen $18,000 in small bills from a closet of his Nahant, Mass, home, he got little return but publicity and trouble. The sitter and two teen-age girl friends were arrested (TIME, Oct. 29) amid a New York City shopping spree, but not before they had spent $3,000 of the money and had lost all the rest to a nameless big-city sharpie...
Ford said the death was "suicide by morphine poisoning during a state of depression." Covner had been worried about the money and publicity, and was bothered by the pranksters who constantly called his home to ask if he wanted a baby sitter...
...Covner was in the headlines last week when his teen-aged baby sitter stole a $20,000 nest egg hidden in his home and went to New York on a spree...
...edition, Infant Care for the first time offers advice on babysitters. Besides giving the sitter a feeding and changing schedule, and a telephone number where they can be reached, parents should first introduce the sitter to any baby over four months old: "The terror a baby may feel when he is old enough to tell people apart and wakes to find himself with a stranger is something no child should be exposed...