Word: backgrounded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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First choosy, Paul C. deVergie '51 has an impressive family background; his father is obooist with the Boston Symphony. Violist Richard S. Garden 3G is another son of an outstanding musician. Jacques Gordon founded the Gordon String Quartet of Music Mountain, Conn...
...familiar Soviet passion for secrecy in its affairs, a good deal of news can be gotten out of Russia. But it takes digging. That is why TIME has a "Russian Desk," whose three members spend their time winnowing facts from the Russian chaff. Last week's Background For War story in TIME on Russia's war potential was a good example of the nature of their work...
...subtly with the horrors of being a social outcast (see RADIO)-tied up whole brigades of high-powered executives and fortunes in speculative capital. Twenty-five million U.S. children in the most receptive age bracket (4 to 13) were tumbled ceaselessly in a sea of entertainment, while in the background bugles pealed, hoofbeats drummed, tires screeched, gunfire echoed and stentorian voices bawled the advantages of endless yummy products...
...Fence Me In. The man who touched off this twin epidemic of hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop...
False pregnancy, said the doctors, is mental in origin. All their patients had become overanxious, and said it was because they had tried in vain to conceive. Some had wanted a child to secure a husband's wavering affections or to prove themselves as "complete women." Usually their background included insecurity and tension, as well as frustration, and sometimes even a need for punishment. Thus beset, the mind took refuge in "pregnancy" which the body simulated...