Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veterans of the old days on the road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore died...
Soon he begins to tell himself that he wants desperately to marry her. "I don't want to be a middle-aged man keeping a girl somewhere." But he is old enough to know it would never work out. And then again: "Is it fair to have children at my age?" What's more, he is aware that the girl really wants a father more than she wants a lover. Every counsel of experience and common sense requires that he let her go-so he asks her to marry him. And she accepts...
...refuses to listen to reason from anyone; but he cannot entirely ignore the warning voice of fear. Does he really love the girl? Does he, at his age, really want to live the emotional life of a young man? Wouldn't he be wiser to act his age and somehow find his peace? In the happy-unhappy ending, the victim-hero of the drama accepts at life's hands the lesser evil, the larger hope...
Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
...sales jump of 4% over the preceding week, the tenth such weekly rise. Another big reason for confidence is that manufacturers this year took pains to study their market. Many sent their designers on nationwide tours to sound out stores and shoppers on the kind of clothes women want to buy. The consensus: the U.S. woman does not want novelties or revolutionary, untested style changes that make a heavy investment in clothes a risk. Women buy the most, said Kirby, Block's Cynthia Marks, when the clothes flatter the figure, give them confidence and a sense of fashion authority...