Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notes on U.S. customs, manners & morals as reported in the U.S. press: ¶Said Seattle's Fire Chief William Fitzgerald: no man can face a crisis with his pants off, but a woman forgets about modesty if the fire is hot enough. Nevertheless he warned firemen not to be crude when rescuing ladies from bathtubs. "Don't just break down the door. Knock first and say, 'Ma'am, this is the fire department.' Then break down the door...
Last week Dr. Lina Stern was once again on international view. The Soviet Government handed out photographs of her to the world's press, along with a few carefully chosen words about her career. Grey now and 69, Dr. Stern is a woman of consequence in the U.S.S.R. She holds the Stalin Prize for scientific accomplishment, is director of the Moscow Institute of Physiology and half a dozen other research enterprises, has nearly 300 scientific publications to her credit. She can boast the standard trappings of a top-rank Russian scientist: a fine laboratory...
...India. Most had excellent teeth (40% had no cavities; 95% of the well-fed U.S. population has cavities). Dentist Jay also drilled deep into another pair of common beliefs: 1) that milk is good for adults' teeth because it provides them with calcium; and 2) that a pregnant woman is vulnerable to tooth decay. Not so, says Jay: after tooth enamel is formed (in childhood), nothing can be done either to add to it or subtract from...
...hill girl; J. M. Kerrigan as her conniving, Irish tenant farmer father. The play tells of Dunn's blind quest for redemption from a hell of liquor and women; of Miss Welch's efforts to make him happy and to alleviate her own hell as an outsized woman; of her father's willingness to make something out of it, mainly money...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, with Helen Hayes...