Word: parental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries, in each of which it enjoys something close to dominance. The European Trib is not only the biggest English-language paper on the Continent, but it also consistently makes money (about $100,000 before taxes last year, v. an estimated $2,000,000 loss by its New York parent...
...live" was just about the only legacy a Jewish parent in Hitler's Europe could offer his daughter or son. To go alone into a world of tightening snares was a little easier for a handsome, Aryan-looking girl than for her brother, but to live she still needed her wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard...
...eliteniks of the theater. She painted (commendably), wrote poetry (passably), studied acting, and even performed (middling) in a few TV shows and summer-stock plays. Charming in her shyness, stammering ever so slightly (a holdover from her childhood), Gloria was rated a good all-round girl and loving parent...
When the smoke of accusation cleared last week, Justice Edgar Nathan Jr. gave Gloria fulltime control over the children, restricted Stoky to annual four-week visits with a fifty-fifty share of school holidays and weekends. But the judge did not let either parent go without administering a sharp slap. "It is a sad commentary," he wrote, "that an entire month of the court's time and energy has been devoted almost exclusively to the resolution of problems which mature, intelligent parents should be able to work out for themselves for the sake of their children...
...Pounds. The taming of Walter Winchell may have stemmed from a 1952 illness, which put him to taking things easy. "I'm not the chicken I was," said Winchell, who is 62. He is in a position to coast: he gets $1,200 a week from his parent paper, Hearst's New York Mirror, and additional income from his radio newscast, show-business appearances ($70,000 for two weeks in Las Vegas last year), and his column syndication-down to about 145 papers-keeps him in the 91% income tax bracket. The old lion has not only grown...