Word: staidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thing a copy boy or cub reporter learns in the average city room is not to whistle, hum or sing. It's bad luck, and furthermore, it's disconcerting. But for more than two years, every 15 minutes from dawn till dark, the staid city room of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (circ. 114,854) has echoed to the strains of such treacly tunes as Dear Hearts & Gentle People and Because You Love Me. Miss Eleanor McClatchy, fiftyish, publisher of the Bee, wants it that way. She thinks that the music (piped in by Muzak) relaxes...
...loneliest man in Hollywood last week was a onetime Manhattan juvenile court judge named Stephen S. Jackson. Staid, mild-mannered Judge Jackson, 51, was on "a very important mission" for Colorado's burly Senator Ed C. Johnson, a shocked and disillusioned Ingrid Bergman fan who was determined to improve Hollywood's morals by federal licensing of its players and producers (TIME, March 27). But Investigator Jackson had hardly settled into his small, bathless hotel room before a morally indignant Hollywood began peppering him with abuse...
...train, by bus, by bicycle and by thumb, more than 2,000 trollops came to Celle. The girls increased the shortage of space until the staid people of Celle, swept along on the tide of vice and opportunism, began renting rooms for the night only. The price depended on the G.I.s' alcoholic state-it was usually 20 marks ($5), but in at least one case it was as high as 250. Some mothers even sent their children into the streets to lure the G.I.s home: "Nice warm Stube with big bed, Joe." Among themselves, the burghers began to call...
Socialist's Beginning. Clement Richard Attlee was born (1883) into a staid, middle-class family in Putney, a staid, middle-class suburb in the southwest section of London. He was tutored at home until he was nine years old-first by his mother, and later by a governess, a Miss Hutchinson, one of whose earlier pupils she remembered as a "strongwilled child" named Winston Churchill. Attlee went off to boarding school at nine, and he has described his subsequent years in terms remarkably like Churchill's account of his own school days. Wrote Attlee...
...over the capital last week people danced to the mountain music. Staid Nacional Radio slipped a few bambucos in among its classics; smaller stations broadcast them at all hours. White-tied guitarists strummed the beat at the upper-class Embajador restaurant. Street minstrels twanged the bambuco on their four-stringed tiples (Indian guitars). El Espectador, surveying the popular tunes of 1949, noted that three bambucos topped the list. "Why not?" asked a bogotano. ''After all, it's our own music, and it's good...