Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These were the qualities that had made President Eisenhower stick with Stassen long after he had made an enemy of nearly everyone else in the Administration with his odd maneuverings, e.g., his abortive attempt to dump Vice President Richard Nixon from the Republican ticket in 1956, and his continued sniping at State Secretary John Foster Dulles' policy on disarmament negotiations withRussia (TIME, Jan. 30). Moving to Pennsylvania, where he has maintained voting residence since his 3½-year stint as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Stassen figures to be just about as welcome as he was in Washington...
Bath Water & Baby. Oklahoma-born, Los Angeles-reared James Albert Pike was always one to stick his neck out. So uncompromising was his Catholicism that he turned down a scholarship to Harvard to go to a Catholic college-California's Jesuit University of Santa Clara. But after two years there, his faith in the Church of Rome was gone, and with it his faith in Christianity ("I threw out the baby with the bath water," he says). He switched to the University of Southern California, followed it up with Yale Law School...
...perfectly exemplified in The Winthrop Woman, a bulging package of period color, religion, sex, sadism and witchcraft. It is written in what can only be called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from the fans of fancy-dress fiction. Novelist Seton (Dragonwyck, Katherine) moves among the historic exhibits with the assurance of an attendant waving a feather duster...
...when his wife Nancy died on Christmas morning of 1940 as the result of an automobile crash. He was far too busy scratching out a marginal living as a Colver. Pa. coal-miner to indulge his family in any subtle systems of discipline. "I used to take the stick a lot to Billy," father Hartack recalls. "I don't believe in letting no kid have his way. He'd do anything I'd tell...
...that he is sure to have his choice of horses for the big races ahead. Some book will not be made until Hartack's choices are made. Come Derby Day, will he ride Calumet's unbeaten Kentucky Pride, on which he has already won some Florida sprints ? Will he stick with Trainer Moody Jolley's favorite Nadir? Will he risk riding Mrs. Charles U. Bay's fast little filly Idun...