Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back. Although there are plenty of jobs in heavy industry, official figures now show 35,000 unemployed. Labor says there are far more and, forgetting its own enlightened postwar policy, has made immigration the pivot of its attack on the Liberal-Country Party coalition government. Said Laborite E. J. Ward last week: "More immigrants simply mean more unemployed...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). John P. Marquand's Swell Girl, with Wendell Corey and Victoria Ward...
Montgomery Ward's fall & winter catalogue went out to customers last week with not a picture of a live model in it, except on the cover and in the millinery section. Dresses, coats and sweaters were hung on headless, armless and legless dummies ; stockings were draped over a disembodied hand. Reason: Montgomery Ward's stern Chairman Sewell Avery does not want a customer's attention diverted by a pretty girl...
Another patient who went to the circus instead of a cemetery is Little Joe, also eight. Within ten days, isoniazid ended his unbearable headache and loosened his stiff spine and neck. Now Little Joe is the life of the men's ward at Winslow Indian Sanatorium, first up in the morning and (complain the tired oldsters) the last to turn in at night...
...meeting in his own way. Miller, who has often snapped pictures where photographers were banned, is an old hand at concealing the weapons of his trade. (Three years ago, armed with a proxy and a hidden camera, he took 36 pictures of Sewell Avery at a closed Montgomery Ward stockholders' meeting.) At the first committee meeting, Miller turned up with no paraphernalia in sight. But it was there just the same...