Word: watching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, Father Franks lives close to his work. The day begins at 7:15 when the Franks children (Caroline, 10, and Allison, 4) rouse their parents. Breakfast is in a small room off Lady Franks's bedroom (just fruit juice and coffee for Sir Oliver, who has to watch his weight; once when he was laid up with a broken...
Next week it will be the big companies' turn to watch the gasaterias squirm. Under a new California law, the self-service stations may no longer advertise their "5? a gallon discount" unless their huge signs include, "in letters of equal size," the total price per gallon and brand name' of their gasoline...
...tightrope-the mere sustained effort of conversation fatigues Harold. He simply cannot spare his energy talking to people." For relaxation on weekends in Westhampton, N.Y., the judge has been rereading all of Dickens ("So far removed from the trial"), playing golf, billiards, and going out in his boat to watch the sailboat races...
Golfer King, 33, who put out Turnesa, owns a 2,300-acre cattle and dairy ranch near Wichita Falls, Tex., is a deacon in the Baptist church, and describes himself as a "weekend" golfer. He flew his private plane to Rochester expecting to watch more golf than he played. Long before the finals, he was taking bismuth tablets to quiet the butterflies in his stomach. He had never been so close to a major golf title in his life, although he had accomplished the almost incredible feat of winning the Grand American trapshooting championship...
Died. Hans Kindler, 56, Netherlands-born founder and longtime conductor of Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra; after a stomach operation; in Watch Hill, R.I. Cellist Kindler founded the first orchestra in the Nation's capital during the depression (1931) after seven attempts by others had failed, entranced music lovers by conducting in sport jacket and shirtsleeves, finally resigned last December in a dispute with the orchestra's backers...