Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mortimer is a drama critic. The plot is a bit mad, and is far too intricately folded to describe. And it never ends. As the final curtain falls, a guest is raising his glass. "Elderberry wine is rare nowadays--I thought I'd had my last glass." "No," replies Aunt Martha, "Here...
...role of Aunt Martha is pleasantly played by Helen Ray, who looks the part but sometimes tumbles over her lines. The role of Teddy is unruinable: charging up the stairs (San Juan Hill), plunging down to the cellar (Panama), bellowing, or bugling, George Lipton does nothing to diminish the preposterous comedy of his role. Mortimer is acted well, but Hugh Reilly often forces excessive gusto or thickheadedness into his part. The glowering Jonathan is solidly acted by George Cotton, who, sadly, looks like Orson Welles instead of Boris Karloff (the role was written as a parody of Karloff, and Karloff...
...sure millions like me, think of the "family group" that will inhabit the White House. Looking at photographs of the various families, I, at least, return to Mamie and Ike. Those Stevenson boys with their toothy smiles are altogether too Ivy-Leaguish, and the aunt, I'm afraid, would be terribly officious. Mrs. Kefauver, at least on the '52 try, was also too much in evidence-pert and pushy. No, let's keep Mamie, who, with her naturalness, is also self-effacing and lets Ike run his side of the show. Another thing. The old talk...
...birthplace-in a bubble-top Lincoln. Ike stood throughout much of the 65 miles, waving to the crowds gathered in the little towns and at the crossroads, flashing his familiar grin, shouting greetings. At Boone, the Eisenhowers spent a quiet evening with Mamie's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Carlson, then set forth for Newton. In such towns as Ames (where Ike chuckled at members of one Iowa State College fraternity standing at attention with golf clubs at shoulder arms), Huxley, Mitchellville and Lone Tree Junction, the streets were lined with friendly farm-belters...
...family always ran together Bessie (for an aunt) and Wallis (for her father). She eventually made it just Wallis, a name she always preferred because "so many cows are called Bessie...