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Middle of the Night, for example, is full of baby-sitter, telephone, shoes-off-in-the-living-room, talk-frankly-about sex realism. Nearly every little detail is honest and well observed, but some seem at the same time to be examples of unselective realism, of cliches and trivia...
...decade of decline, the number of household helpers is rising again, has climbed 50% in the last few years to 1,971,000 chambermaids, laundresses, cooks and cleaning women, another 50,000 butlers and valets-to say nothing of that uniquely American profession, the dollar-an-hour baby sitter. Today's maid shortage is a scarcity of financial plenty. For every U.S. woman who has a maid, a dozen others want and could afford...
...courageous sitter is Chicago Art Patron Mary Block, daughter of the late Adman Albert Lasker, wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve...
...Nick. In Franklin, Ky., police got a telephone distress call to hurry "out to my house because something awful is about to happen," sped to the address, found, crouched behind the sofa, Billy Kratzert, 4, who pointed a trembling finger at his baby sitter, said: "She was going to spank...
...University of Texas' Professor of Education Frederick Eby, 82, white-maned elder statesman of Texas public education, father ("Well, maybe baby sitter") of the state's junior colleges, lifetime opponent of the teachings of Philosopher John Dewey. While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896, where Dewey held sway over the philosophy department, Eby was assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish. Soon disillusioned ("A good thing Archie didn't catch on; he might have become a carpenter instead of a poet"), Eby declared his independence...