Word: staid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Madge Gates Wallace, 90, mother-in-law of President Harry Truman; at the White House in Washington. A staid member of one of the leading families of Independence, Mo., she looked on Harry Truman's early political career with misgivings, spent much time in her later years at the White House and Blair House, but never became completely reconciled to politics or politicians. As recently as 1948 she refused to allow the President's political friends in the living room of the Truman home (which she owned) in Independence, but let a few of them...
...Staid Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 61, is a new kind of President; he is neither a general nor a lawyer, but a bureaucrat. His nickname is Cara de Calavera, or Skullface; though he looks like Actor Boris Karloff, in his make-up there is a little Milquetoast: in movies, he obeys no-smoking rules even when everyone around him is puffing away. His favorite pastime is dominoes, though he also likes to watch baseball and stroll to street-corner stands to sip tamarind juice...
...social life, shuns the theater, movies, TV, but is a wide reader. A wealthy man (his Amerada stock alone is worth $8,000,000), he makes no show of it, wears a somber uniform of dark clothes, has no car, shuttles to his Manhattan office by subway from the staid old Plaza Hotel, where he has lived for 25 years. "I'm not gregarious," he says. "I don't have many friends and no particular friends. I have business associates, but no personal friends. I don't go in for that sort of thing...
...have been fined $10 for late registration, but wasn't. Instead the tardy student was greeted dockside by the dean of the Public Health School, Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, and later was elected president of his class following a bibulous beer party for him in the School's staid lobby...
Skin specialists who read of the case last week in the staid British Medical Journal snorted, did not see how hypnosis could ease a condition which began in the womb. Neither could young (26) Dr. Mason, but he had witnesses to his treatment and the boy's improvement...