Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From start to finish, last week's farewell party for the retiring ambassador* and his wife was a happy get-together of good friends. Evita brought a new portrait down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
...official. After the rumors and the denials, Aly Khan announced in Deauville that his wife, Princess Margarita (known to millions as Rita Hayworth), was indeed expecting a baby...
...young team of Baltimore eye specialists, Dr. William Councilman Owens and his wife, Dr. Ella Uhler Owens, decided to begin at the beginning. In 1945 they started to study every baby weighing 4½ pounds or less born at Johns Hopkins Hospital or taken to its nursery. They observed 214 in two years. No baby had R.L.F. at birth, but five developed...
Last spring, a young couple from New Orleans flew into New York City with twin boys who were already seven months old. Andrew Hoffmann and his pretty blonde wife thought both boys were blind, but at Presbyterian Hospital it was found that Dennis had some vision. On Kenneth, who had none, an ophthalmologist operated to remove part of the fibrous tissue. He believed that it was not the retina, but that the retina was shriveled and displaced. By last week, Dennis Hoffmann's vision was-improving slowly, but Kenneth was still sightless...
Langs thought up the stick-on bra when his wife complained that she could not get an even tan in a bathing suit. Last May, after lengthy experiments, he put the adhesive cups on sale. He expected the bra to be just a sideline to his business of chrome-plating grilles for autos, and hired two girls to fill orders in the basement of his home. The orders poured in so fast that he had to hire 43 more employees, rent the entire floor of a warehouse. Many orders remained unfilled for weeks...