Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prinney spent his wedding night dead drunk and ended up on the edge of the fireplace, where his bride let him sleep it off undisturbed. After the birth of their child and heir, Princess Charlotte, nine months later, the future King of England sent Caroline formal notification that he would require no further wifely duties...
Born. To Victor Borge, 47, Danish-born pianist-comedian, and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 35: their second child (his third, her fourth), a daughter; in Waterbury, Conn. Name: Frederikke...
Ransom! (M-G-M). The ransom that is intended to purchase the life of a kidnaped child is more likely to buy his death. The logic of this statement is inescapable: with the cash in hand, the criminals no longer need the child alive for possible use as an instrument of extortion, and in fact they are much better off with him dead if he is old enough to bear witness against them. Furthermore, a kidnaper faces the death penalty in many states, so what difference does a murder make...
Logic, however, is one thing; feelings are quite another. What parent would have the nerve to call a kidnaper's bluff-to play, in effect, a game of poker with his own child's life? Ransom! is the story of a man who had the nerve. Based on a popular television play by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum, it is a fairly conventional thriller that says, in substance, something much better than conventional about the truth, and how dreadful is the operation by which it makes a man free...
...hands the money over, he has time to consider the facts of the matter. After a fierce inner struggle, his head rules his heart. He takes TV time to tell the criminals his decision: that they will never get a cent from him, and that, moreover, if the child is not turned loose unharmed, he will post the whole half million as a reward for their capture...