Word: temperance
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...roving Lady Astor was entertained at the local country club by the city's foremost winter residents, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his wife Katherine. Ordinarily one of America's most caustic critics, Virginia-born Nancy Astor was on her best behavior, kept her temper during her frequent rounds of golf (handicap: 20), purred just like any sweet old (65) lady. Sample: "I've never known so many nice people as you've got here...
...temper of religious faith is best measured against the pressures of human weakness. In The Power and the Glory Graham Greene gave a classic demonstration of the ordeal by inner torture that follows when a priest who is a weak man falls from grace. Now Ronald Hardy, a young (35) Englishman (and an Anglican) has written a first novel that establishes him as Greene's No. 1 disciple...
Tony married handsome Shauna ("Miss Utah State") Wood, quit the University of Cincinnati, and began playing harder than ever. But turning tennis into a business did not come easy. Bothered by blisters and hampered by a hair-trigger temper. Tony won only one major title (French singles) all last year. Only as a member of the successful U.S. Davis Cup team (TIME, Jan. 10) did he come up to his old form. Time was running out: another year as an also-ran and Tony might have to pick a new profession...
Last week, on the slippery boards of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, Tony started fast in one more try. His big serve skidding and hopping, his net game vastly improved and his temper in check, he breezed to the finals of the U.S.L.T.A. indoor singles championships. In the last round his Davis Cup teammate, Ham Richardson, 21, made him work for the title. But Tony, 24, was equal to the job. After losing the long first set, 11-13, Tony unwound, ran out the match...
...envelope but we had no record of it, sir, and would I please step over with the standbys. At Knoxville the next day I reconfirmed to Washington when I landed and two days later the boys pulled the same gag on me. This time I blew up and bad temper got me on the plane. Blowing up. by everyone, on every occasion, may be the answer-so far as there is one. Business management's first solution to every problem, frequently its only one, is to increase the budget for advertising and public relations. The principle is that...