Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweet & Soft. This was too much for the English-language daily, the Madras Mail, which quoted an exasperated woman's comment on Chettiar: "Why does not someone find him a wife?" The Mail observed: "The Minister's puritanism . . . derives from the absence of sweet softening feminine influences in his life. Now that the question has been broached, someone among the many matchmakers in South India will perhaps succeed in providing Bachelor Avinashilingam with a wife. We sincerely hope...
Humphrey Bogart, of Benedict Canyon, Calif., and wife Lauren Bacall left home unexpectedly for a day's visit with friends. The Bogart boxers had killed a skunk in the backyard, laid it triumphantly on the front doorstep, and then romped joyously through the house...
Portinari (TIME, July 28, 1947) had long been Brazil's No. 1 painter, and so recognized abroad; he is also an energetic Communist. Before Communism was outlawed in Brazil, Portinari once ran for Senator, almost made it with 300,000 votes. Nowadays Portinari lives with his wife and son in a comfortable house on the hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, but he has never allowed himself to forget or to lose touch with the back-country poverty he grew up in (he was one of twelve children in an immigrant Italian family of coffee workers...
Last week the editorial brought some action. While Editor Jere Moore, 46, and his wife were out to dinner, a fiery cross was burned on their front lawn. But Editor Moore, an antiaircraft colonel in the Pacific in World War II, was not to be intimidated. He came right back with a defiant editorial accusing the Ku Klux
...would like very much to associate this gift with the spirit of Christmas." With these words Industrialist Myron C. Taylor last week presented Cornell University with a Christmas present that was notable indeed-$1,500,000. Its purpose: to establish a student interfaith building in memory of his wife. The new structure will contain a chapel dedicated to Cornell men who died in World War II, an "All Nations" room, an auditorium, and offices for twelve cooperating church groups. Episcopalian Taylor (Cornell law school 1894; presidential envoy to the Vatican since 1939) has already given the university its law school...