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...Work on Tish 'ah Be'ab. Abe brought his own kosher food to school every day and ate it in the student lounge, where he also said his midday prayers in a corner, surrounded by chattering fellow students. Hospital duty during the 24-hour fast without food and water at Tish 'ah Be'ab (commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.) Dr. Twerski describes as "murder,'' and the last six years have left him hollow-eyed and slightly sallow. But he is eagerly looking forward to the next stage: a year...
...captain Betsy Fogarty, bucket guard, and high-scoring forward Tish Emerson, the Annex six were ahead 21 to 16 at the half. In the third period, forwards Miss Emerson, Nancy Morton, and Sandy Witt failed to score from outside the key. They made two out of three foul shots...
...quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named "Tish," still sternly kept regular office hours in her 70s. Mrs. Rinehart once shrewdly appraised her own honorable journeyman status in letters: "If I agonized like a Chekhov over my work, and I did, the resemblance ceased there...
...manual warns that "the Bible, the Prayer Book and the Hymnal will be essential tools in your teaching," the chief aim of the series is to express religion in everyday, sometimes even in comic-book terms. For six-year-olds, there are three gaily illustrated booklets of stories about Tish and Mike, whose adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement of 15?. When Mike discovers...
...would just as soon be out of it all. She says she never asked to be in show business anyway; it was all her mother's idea. Fortyish and divorced, she lives in Beverly Hills with her eight-year-old daughter Patricia, and "I hope Tish will never want to be an actress. I want her to grow up and have a lot of children so I can be a grandmother." What Ann really wants, she says, is "a man who is 40, rich and Catholic. Then I'll quit this business in a second." Until then...