Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lots of Mutton. The daughter of a rich Anglophile Brahmin lawyer, she was taken to England at five and entrusted to an English governess. Until her marriage at 21, she was called "Nan," acquired a pronounced English accent, ate typical English food like mutton, boiled cabbage and pudding; Indian food was served only on Sundays. But what really turned her against Britain was not mutton and boiled cabbage but the recurring jail sentences imposed on her late husband, Lawyer Ranjit Pandit, her brother Jawaharlal Nehru, and herself, for political activity. From 1931 to 1943 she was thrice jailed...
Elsewhere life was much prettier. Alabama's 38-year-old Governor Jim Folsom, who stands 6 ft. 8 in. and goes in for the homespun manner, went calling on the 18-year-old daughter of California's Governor Earl Warren. The press was promptly awash in dewy anticipation. "We did a little sight-seein'," reported Folsom, a widower and father of two. "And ... we had some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension...
...Hollywood last week, the President's daughter also met the press. Her omnipresent teacher, Mrs. Margaret Strickler, a bosomy, flop-hatted kind of Madame Svengali, was hovering near by. When reporters asked Margaret about one selection on her program, La Fauvette avec ses Petits from Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Mrs. Strickler muscled in: "Galli-Curci was the only other one I've heard sing it. I might say that her voice was very similar, too." Margaret laughed it off: "That will be enough of that...
...Before last week's concert, Teacher Strickler had a conversation on that possibility, according to Hollywood's Daily Variety: an advertising agency and Margaret were dickering over a radio appearance. Said Mrs. Strickler indignantly: "Don't forget she is the President's daughter." Snapped the adman: "Why do you think I'm offering...
Desert Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...