Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shut Up. Bernard Haggin, an angular musical zealot who looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book...
Married. Nackey Elizabeth Scripps, 20, younger daughter of the late news-magnate Robert Paine Scripps; and George Gallowhur, 38, enterprising chemical manufacturer (Skol, Skat, etc. - TIME, Sept. 6, 1943); in Las Vegas...
Coal, the No. 1 U.S. heating fuel, is getting scarcer every day, although production is up nearly 6% over last year. The reason for the scarcity is increased demand and lack of manpower. Old men are working the mines; when they quit or die, almost no younger men are available. This means that eastern and southern homes will get 10% less coal this year than last. But better distribution may help coal burners...
...Mclntire, an ophthalmologist and otolaryngologist whose specialty is sinus (Franklin Roosevelt's most nagging health problem), is a balding, relaxed Oregonian whose rosy face is younger than his 55 years. Every morning around 8:30 he parks his five-year-old Lincoln convertible in front of the White House, strolls into the Presidential bedroom, insinuates himself into the daily bedside bull session. Having done his morning chore, he becomes Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy and spends the rest of the day bossing his wartime staff of 140,000. Each afternoon, he checks up at the White House again...
...said, 'If I were only younger...