Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeleine Carroll, peaches-&-cream cinemeritus who set an example that few movie stars followed and fewer equaled-she quit Hollywood fame & fortune for three solid years of war work-was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. France paid tribute to her Red Crossing among soldiers during the liberation, her broadcasts boosting Franco-American understanding...
...George Lucas of Lafayette, Ind. (1944 pop. 30,746) was judged the Typical American Housewife by a national research organization. Outlines of the Typical American Housewife: she is 28, a solid. ly built brunette, the wife of a sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal...
Criticism of Y.F.C. has been religious as well as political. Associate Editor Harold E. Fey of the Christian Century has scathingly compared its "milky abstractions" with the "solid meat" of the great evangelists in the American religious tradition: in Youth for Christ rallies "a great deal is said about salvation, but nobody attempts to define...
Even after he married, he found it hard to get his feet on solid ground, insisted on living aboard the Mizpah, where the first of his two children was born. Since the Navy took over the yacht for war purposes, the fabulous Gene McDonald has lived ashore and lumped it, a subdued family man who sticks to a couple of beers, plays with the children while his wife studies Russian and music. His most strenuous recent struggle: a safari last week to Washington to row with the FCC over FM wave lengths...
...joins up with his brothers. By that time, Young Henry's gamble may be won-or lost. These days Young Henry is quite certain that it will be won, that the troubled labor relations that harried the empire for years are finally at an end. He has one solid fact to go on. Since V-J day, there has not been a single work stoppage in any of the Ford plants...