Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Since "Life with Father" was written, the father-figure has become one of the commonest targets in American humor. Frank Gilbreth, the head of the household in "Cheaper by the Dozen" is a typical autocrat--an efficiency expert who started married life with a determination to have twelve children and...
Hitting the Road. As he rolled through the Central Florida citrus belt last week, Congressman Smathers was doing everything possible to label Pepper a proCommunist, an apologist for Joe Stalin and a backer of that Yankee monstrosity, the FEPC. He ominously quoted Lenin as saying that the "best way to...
Batches of astrologers operate about the Grand Palace every day, telling fortunes for a deal (a deal's a nickel) each, but better-class Siamese consider them quacks. Real astrologers are learned men. members of the Astrological Society of Siam, who usually hold clerks' jobs in government offices...
All over Mexico last week, pickpockets, adding a hyper-modern wrinkle to their ancient profession, did a booming trade among crowds gathered to scan the skies for plativolos (flying saucers). For the saucer-hysteria that still flickers occasionally in the U.S. was sweeping Mexico.
Father's Hope. Second daughter of a New York doctor who wanted a son to follow his profession, Elise Strang heard her father say of her: "This one will be my doctor." Dr. Strang died long before his daughter was ready for college, but she kept his fondest hope...