Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joliot-Curie, daughter of famed Physicist Marie Curie, is a distinguished nuclear physicist in her own right, a Nobel prizewinner and the wife of a Communist. Like her husband, Frederic, she is also a member of France's Atomic Research Commission. Late one afternoon last week, Mme. Curie stepped off an Air France plane at La Guardia Field. Waiting to meet her was Dr. Edward Barsky, chairman of the Communist-front Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, under whose auspices Mme. Curie was to lecture...
Said his American Negro jailer: "He is the nastiest ole man I ever did see. He growls like a dog when I come near him." But he was also a pathetic old man, whose wife and daughter had committed suicide, and who would probably not live to the end of his sentence. The lesson that Lammers held for the world was that there were other men like him and not only in Germany, whose mediocre but precise minds were willing to do the office work of terror...
...following in the steps of Louis Budenz, who had quit as managing editor of New York's Daily Worker (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945) to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church, Convert Hyde took along his two children. His wife, a Communist for ten years, also quit the party. Said Hyde: "It became obvious to me that the movement for which I had fought and worked so long was destroying those very freedoms and decencies for which it claimed to be fighting. . . . Communism was incapable of providing a cure for an extremely sick world. My growing disillusionment led me to seek...
...Tiger's Eye, going into its third issue with a press run of 5,000, was the expensively printed quarterly of Artist John Stephan and his wife, Poet Ruth Walgreen Stephan. Because she thinks it a shame that poets get such paltry pay, Mrs. Stephan, daughter of the late Drug Magnate Charles R. Walgreen, pays a princely $2 a line for poetry...
...Among the contributions were poems by Kenneth (Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer) Patchen and Conductor Leonard Bernstein (who called his poem Life Is Juicy). The lead article (by Londoner Rudolph Friedmann) began: "Getting married is the best way of taking regular exercise. In order to encourage his libido the wife lets the husband chase her around...