Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo was quiet again. The royal couple ate an early supper, read the evening papers, watched themselves for a while on TV. Finally, the 80-year-old Chief Ritualist and his wife brought in the four silver trays with the 26 rice cakes that would remain on the bedroom altar for three days to ensure the early arrival of an heir. At 10 p.m., lights went out at the Eastern Palace...
...authors of the new strip, Willie Woo, claim it is the first comic to be set to music. Each weekly sequence ends in a simple song composed by Marion Abeson, a Manhattan attorney's wife who has sold more than 5,000,000 records of her songs for children. Mrs. Abeson usually dreams up the strip continuity, too, hands her ideas over to Freelance Artist Marvin Friedman to draw...
...Other reporters, possibly in envy, suggest that this kind of intimate coverage can only goad gangland into throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat at. But you're as safe as if you were covering a Sunday-school picnic...
...Japanese hauls him out. When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...
...President, who, following Moscow's sentiments, cooperated with capitalism during World War II, was purged when the party line shifted in 1946; by Gladys Browder, 67, whom he deserted in 1924; after 48 years of marriage, one son (Browder had three other sons by a Russian-born wife whom he married without troubling to get a U.S. divorce); in Kansas City, Kans...