Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME subscriber, Uncle Charlie follows a pattern of reading common to many TIME families. He awaits his turn. The family subscriber is a niece, Mrs. Earl Smith, who lives nearby. She began reading TIME at the local library, liked it, and became a subscriber. A tall, handsome, grey-haired woman, whose husband is deputy sheriff, Mrs. Smith told Wylie that she turns to Science and Medicine first -partly because her son, who is away at school, is particularly interested in those subjects. Then she reads National Affairs, and so on through each issue. "You can't keep up with...
...tung learned about tyranny. Old Mao was the Ruling Power in the family. Young Mao, his brother, mother and the hired hand were the masses. Says Mao: "My mother, a kind and generous woman, criticized my attempts at open rebellion against the Ruling Power. She said it was not the Chinese way." Mao soon discarded his mother's simple gradualism. When his father bawled him out, he quoted a passage from Confucius, to the effect that the old should be kind and affectionate. Says Mao with sly humor: "The dialectical struggle in our family was constantly developing...
...usually affable toward U.S. visitors. One U.S. authoress-Agnes Smedley-reported this impression: "The tall, forbidding figure lumbered toward us and a high-pitched voice greeted us. Then two hands grasped mine; they were as long and sensitive as a woman's . . . Whatever else he might be, he was an esthete . . . He asked a thousand questions . . . We spoke of India; of literature; once he asked me if I had ever loved any man, and why, and what love meant...
Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Edward G. Robinson and Linda Darnell in The Woman in the Window...