Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Topeka, Kans., hospital doctors treated the head wounds of Ford Sanders, who indignantly wondered what was the matter with his 13-year-old son: "I was just going to whip the wife a little and he hit me on the head with a brick." In Springfield, Mass., Robert H. Smith won a divorce when he testified that his wife slapped him because he could not dance the polka...
...Smith, Roberts and French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau finally agreed to issue a hold-for-release warning of each Kremlin meeting, and a tipoff on which embassy would be host at the subsequent huddle. This saved legwork in surrounding all three embassies, but produced no real news; correspondents were reduced to cabling analyses (which sometimes disagreed) of the envoys' facial expressions. In five meetings, the press got about 120 noncommittal words out of Smith, less than that out of Roberts, nothing but vague smiles out of Chataigneau, not even a smile out of Molotov...
TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER (274 pp.) -Betty Smith-Harper...
...second novel, Betty Smith has returned to the community she made famous in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But she has not written so good a novel...
Husband. This seems to place the responsibility on Frankie. He is, however, the weakest character in the novel. The world that Betty Smith pictures is entirely feminine-a world into which a perception of masculine motives makes its way with the utmost difficulty. The mystery of her husband's life is not why he does not respond to her, but why he ever married her at all. "Don't get me wrong," he tells her. "I don't want to go around sleeping with fellers. I . . . I don't want to sleep with anybody. That...