Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loafer or a drunkard." Yet the director of an Indian hospital at White Earth, Minn. told him: "The feeling in some communities is that the only good Indians are dead Indians." In many areas Indians are denied admission to hospitals, refused police protection, turned down when they apply for social-welfare...
...executives-the women who are supposed to set the pattern. The results offer some hard facts to challenge the proposition that executive wives must also marry the corporation. Sixty percent of the wives polled advised the young executive wife to remain aloof from corporate contacts, attend only necessary social functions, such as conventions; even the 40% who disagreed recommended only "a middle ground" of sociability. Said Mrs. Margaret Barry, wife of a vice president of the Michigan Bell Telephone Co.: "It seems wiser to have one's best friends outside the company." Many of the wives reported that they...
...Atlanta executive: "We need good men so bad they could be married to almost anyone and we'd grab 'em. Of course, we'd prefer that she not use a toothpick, but beyond that she's his problem, not ours." Most corporations hope for some social relationships among executives, but do not try to forge them by selecting wives to fit into a pattern. "I doubt very much," says Mrs. George Romney, wife of the president of American Motors, "if anything very important is ever accomplished at parties...
Sugar Candy. Oilman Getty, 64, is one of the least known among the world's oil giants, usually breaks into the press only with news of his marriages and divorces (five of each). An expatriate, he lives in hotel rooms from Europe to the Levant, has little social life, usually eats alone and frugally, wears out-at-the-elbow sweaters. A notorious penny pincher, he passes out tips sparingly, constantly grumbles about the high cost of everything from restaurant food to taxi fares. But he freely pays thousands for such hobbies as his private art museum (Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough...
...Diffeérence. In London, the social adviser of a nudist magazine, the Naturist, got a question: "I am, I believe, rather an oddity in nudist circles: a young, unmarried girl. My problem is that I think nudity is rather austere, and I feel I want to add some distinctive touches like jewelry, necklaces, earrings, and so on. What is the general view about this?", printed an answer: "Certainly, but anything too ostentatious will merely make you look undressed instead of naked...