Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last frontier of the fiction writer. This is the place for a young writer to come. What this place needs is a mute and glorious Milton. If Mark Twain and Bret Harte were alive today, they could do it all over again. If I were 30 years younger...
...course there are malcontents: "Every now and then an old man, overtaken by a younger . . . turns to blame . . . the social order which makes possible the indignity he feels." And until testing methods were made foolproof, parents high in the meritocracy tried to give their occasional stupid children the appearance of wit, then ease them "into a cosy corner of one of the less exacting professions, such as law or stockbroking...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 35, London-born actor of films (It Should Happen to You) and TV (The Thin Man), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 33, younger sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy: a second daughter, third child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Victoria. Weight...
...younger Jim was born in Cambridge and has left here only twice: to go across the world with the Army Finance Corporation and to follow the B.C. football team to the Sugar Bowl game. "Cambridge," he claims, "is a fine town. People mind their own business, yet they have pretty good I.Q's: when I talk to someone here, I get more than a 'yup' or a 'nope' out of him. And half of the dishwashers are in town to study characters for their novels...
...year. Singer Manufacturing Co. spends $3,000,000 a year on national advertising, gives free machine lessons at 1,700 Singer Centers to 363,000 women a year, sponsors annual sewing contests with contestants winning $210,000 in prizes. One return prize for the industry is more and more younger sewers: the average home sewer's age has dropped from 45 in 1928 to 27 now, and by 1960 millions of teen-agers will be sewing. A common but fashionable wedding present for suburban brides: a sewing machine...