Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acquaintances of the arrested youth, however, were able to shed some light on his possible pressing need for funds. They recalled that he had been keeping "rather steady company" with a millionaire's daughter, now a college co-ed, for many months...
...Lindesay Parrott interviewed Takao Takatogawa in Tokyo: "His Government ration . . . consists only of rice, sweet potatoes and seaweed. . . . Because charcoal costs $4 a sack (half a month's rent), his wife and daughter have to go out into the country and pick up sticks to burn. . . . 'The next winter is more worrisome to me [than the next war],' he says...
Died. Ellen McAdoo de Onate Hinshaw, 31, telephone-operator granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; by her own hand (she swallowed an overdose of sleeping tablets, then phoned a friend: "Well, I've done it"); in Santa Monica, Calif...
...that, and garnishes with a couple of dozen minor ranges. It is not exactly strong on story. The only clouds in Composer Kern's life-Broadway's onetime preference for English tunes, and Kern's avuncular concern over his arranger's problem daughter-seem to have been no bigger than a man's hand, and just about as unusual. But for those who like popular music and attractive entertainers, the story will be no more troublesome than a sack race: the movie gets there just the same...
...there is a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," it is the harmless sort of narrative involving no backstage inamoratas or tearful college reunions. According to the film, the greatest difficulties in Kern's life were a ne'er-do-well arranger and his (Kern's) stagestruck daughter. With that casually attended to, the audience can bask in the warmth of some of the finest music America has produced in the popular vein...