Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the products of charlatans have an ancient history. A turn-of-the-century fashion in ample bosoms produced "Bust-O-Fill"; the current bosom-conscious fad has resulted in "Kurv-On," "La Contour" and "Charm-On," which, says the Food and Drug Administration, "have about the same effect on the development or structure of the female breast as Smith Brothers cough drops." The "magic detector" of Dr. Albert Abrams, a roaring success in the '20s, popped up again last year in San Francisco. The detector enabled Dr. Abrams to "tune in on the electric vibration coming from...
Rattled. In Albuquerque, one Navajo took a shot at another, explained, "He was going to turn himself into a snake and bite...
...half a century the glow remained. Styles changed: Broadway brightened (and cheapened) from gaslight into the Great White Way, and moved north to Times Square; nickelodeons grew into movie houses; the talkies came, driving the "legit" theater into retreat, and the ghostly black-and-white flicker of TV in turn haunted the movies. But wherever actors worked at their trade, Ethel Barrymore ruled...
...thinking individuals," but after the war the Government went on classifying "anything that might possibly aid an enemy"-a program that discouraged "top scientific men who might otherwise have come to our country." Concluded Brattain: "I feel very strongly that most restrictions done in the name of national security turn out to be foolish . . . Don't kill the baby to protect it from the kidnapers...
...attention soon takes a different turn. He finds himself hanging around the neighborhood she lives in, waiting like a schoolboy for a chance to pass her on the street. "Jerk!" he warns himself. "What are you doing?" One night he gets up enough courage to ask her for a date. After three or four of them, he knows he has it bad. She knows it, too, and tries to break off the affair before things go too far. But she needs to be loved as much as he needs to love...