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Word: womanizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAIN, by Conrad Richter, illustrated by Herbert Danska (Knopf; $3.75). The old Pennsylvania Dutch legend holds that on the second of July, a woman named Mary walks over the mountain; if it rains that day, Mary doesn't come back and there are 40 days of rain. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Richter's story tells what happens when two boys meet a real Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...only daughter of Actor James Mason and ex-Wife Pamela. The girl gave up smoking at the age of eight and almost won a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest at 12. Now 19, Portland has made her London acting debut in a revival of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, playing-of all things-a puritanical little prig. The critics thought she was splendid, and so did Papa James, who announced that henceforth "my ambition is to be known as Portland's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...month-old infant in her arms. "I'm going to call her Candy." The scene was hardly surprising, since it took place in the reception room of the Children's Bureau in Indianapolis. What made it unusual was that the abandoned child was being adopted by a woman who, at 29, was and is unmarried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: Half a Home Is Better than None | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Most single adoptive parents so far are women-either widows, divorcees or spinsters. And to a woman, they are enthusiastic about their experience. Dr. Mary B. Lane, professor of education at San Francisco State College and a childless widow of 56, now has a three-year-old son and a nine-month-old daughter. Says she: "I wish I had the resources to take a dozen." Women who have never married brush aside any implication that being a mother should cause comment. Chortles Louise Guenthner, 59, director of the Washington State Adoption Resources Exchange, who adopted an eleven-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: Half a Home Is Better than None | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...invested her beauty with so much variety and expressiveness. Miss Leigh's performance starts in her face and works outward, refusing to compromise Scarlett's bitch-coldness with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath the ruthless woman, Miss Leigh always betrays traces of the spoiled young girl. She is not alternately shrewd and charming, but both at once, too huge a character to elicit either admiration or scorn...

Author: By Stephen Kaplan, | Title: Gone With The Wind | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

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