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...when he's hungry, to delay toilet training until he's ready for it, to see that the baby gets a reasonable amount of cuddling and mothering, to let the baby initiate the weaning process . . . There appears to be considerable question whether the new doctrine is any sounder than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bringing Up Parents | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Actually, Lavinia Chamberlayne has left her husband. After five years of marriage she and Edward (Eileen Peel and Robert Flemyng) are neither happy nor faithful. Yet when the unknown guest agrees to bring Lavinia back, Edward is curiously glad; and though he has had a much sounder relation with Celia Coplestone (Irene Worth), he now doesn't want her. When Lavinia does come back, she and Edward neurotically taunt each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...army had to change with the times, as the Devil himself changed, or lose the fight. In a modern world, the kind of social welfare program over which Ernest Pugmire presides is a sounder attack against the enemy than all the processions General Booth might lead today through Sheffield, and sounder than street-corner revivals. Ernest Pugmire's kind of attack also requires courage, and a Christian's stubborn patience and faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Jesse James's posthumous pressagents; the ballad singers, have molded him to heroic proportions. So have most of his biographers. Lacking anything sounder than a dubious mixture of octogenarians gossip and Missouri legend on which to base their judgments, they have served up a dauntless, do-gooding 19th Century Robin Hood who carried the honor of the Old South in one hand and a parcel for the poor in the other. Few in the ballad audience wanted it otherwise. If the storybook Jesse was short on flesh and blood, at least he satisfied a secret, belly-warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many of the Centralia editorials, was mainly responsible for the P-D campaign to smash the corrupt Illinois machine of Governor Dwight Green. Under Dilliard, the page might not be as lively as under Coghlan; staffers hoped it would be better balanced and sounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In & Out | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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