Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-known Main Line. She marries into one of the very best families, but on her wedding night discovers that the blue blood has run pathetically thin. Frightened and confused, she flies back to the arms of her redbrick-Irish boyfriend (Brian Keith) and soon finds herself with child. She also finds herself without a husband: he smashes up his car and is killed. Coldly refusing to marry the man she really loves, she informs him that she is going to raise his son (Paul Newman) as though he were her husband's. "I want him to have...
...virus of distemper, which has saddened the heart of many a child by killing his pet pup, is the agent tested by Dr. John M. Adams of the University of California at Los Angeles. Nearly everybody has antibodies against distemper -surprising, because no human being is known to have caught distemper even from the sickest dog. Dr. Adams reasoned that perhaps the virus is close kin to one that causes human disease, contains the same antigen (antibody-stimulating component). He tried a safety-tested distemper vaccine against respiratory infections in a California institution, and it was a flop. But three...
Fish-Bowl Policy. The fund that has done more than any other to put shares in the household sugar bowl is Massachusetts Investors Trust, oldest and big gest of the mutual funds and the one that set the pattern for all the rest. M.I.T is a child of Boston, which has raised the handling of O.P.M. (other people's money) to the status of a fine art. The art was born of an 1830 court decision, the "Prudent Man Rule." In settling a suit charging a trustee with negligence in investing in common stocks, the judge held that...
...length-glove finesse that she brought to her stripping. Mama played by Merman is forbiddingly, tiresomely brassy, a kind of Orpheum-circuit Medea. At curtain's rise, Mama Rose has already devoured three unshowbusinesslike husbands and is panting to staff the vaudeville stages of the early 1920s with child labor, notably her little daughters June (Actress June Havoc in later life) and Louise (Gypsy). What follows is a kind of Dante's tour of the tank-town circuit, in which Mama Rose's aging small-fry troupe beds down in fleabag hotels, gobbles chow mein breakfasts...
Born. To Mary Churchill Soames, 36, youngest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 38, British Secretary of State for War: their fifth child, third son (Sir Winston's tenth grandchild); in Eridge Green, England...