Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corduroy walls of Rome's smart Obelisco Gallery have seen some unusual exhibits lately-churches in flames, frolicking priests, transparent cats gorged on mice and flowers. But last week's show topped them all. Gallery Owner Gaspero del Corso had reached out to Belgium and brought back 28 paintings by an old surrealist funnyman, Brussels' dour little René Magritte (TIME. June 21, 1948). For Romans, it was a first good look at Magritte's sleepy fantasies. Del Corso's enthusiastic verdict: "They are scandalized...
More than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a "more comfortable and happy event" is being slighted in the current craze for "natural childbirth," says a team of four Baltimore physicians. "It is no longer considered smart talk at the bridge table to discuss twilight sleep or painless labor," the doctors* say in Psychosomatic Medicine. "The woman of the day is one who can vividly describe every last detail of her delivery, including the ecstasy of the unassisted expulsion of the placenta...
Biggest surprise of the evening: Pioneer Zukor's speech, in which he put in an enthusiastic word for Hollywood's most feared enemy. Said he: "Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument...
...Down the sedate corridors and across the carpeted halls the word fluttered: Paymaster Captain Julian Rodriguez Pastrana has gone over the hill with the ministry's payroll, $600,000 in cash. Soon everyone began recalling little things about handsome Captain Rodriguez, a colonel's son and a smart officer. They recalled how he had separated from his wife, and had taken up with an expensively beautiful brunette named Africa Peral Redondo, who was only 28 to his 40. Out went the alarm for the arrest of both of them. But this was nothing to the alarm that broke...
Mosler's biggest problem is that he can't design a foolproof owner. Many a safe-owner picks a combination based on his address or birth date because it is easy to remember. But smart crooks, says Mosler, look up such information as a matter of simple routine in casing a job. Though harder to remember, the safest combination is a meaningless...