Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without a doubt the Most Blessed Father had excellent reason for awarding this major journalistic plum exclusively to Thomas B. Morgan, onetime Associated Press correspondent and now Chief of the Rome Bureau of the rival United Press. Although lean, astute, close-mouthed Tom Morgan has been getting down to the Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm...
...village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, "Holy Roller" Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up. Fred Conrad went home to "save" his father. The father protested. So 200-lb. Fred Conrad went on a fast. He would, he cried, fast for 40 days and nights "like Jesus did." He would save every soul in New Hampshire...
Last week Fred Conrad had shrunk to 140 Ibs. His father, still impenitent, but quite alarmed, made Holy Roller Dotson explain that even fasting can be overdone. Reluctantly Fred Conrad swallowed some beef broth...
Amos Parker Wilder, 67, father of Thornton Niven (Bridge of San Luis Rey) Wilder, retired last week as associate editor of the New Haven Journal-Courier...
When they walk abroad in Boston, where in her father's old brick house in Brimmer Street she lives during his exploring absences, or in Winchester, Va., where Byrds have long had their homes, Commander and Mrs. Byrd usually march side by side with their four children (Richard Evelyn Jr., Evelyn Bolling, Katherine Agnes, Helen) ranged behind them. In their home he has a ceremonious way of listening to her. He stands before her, heels together, tall slim body bent deferentially towards her. That was the way he used to stand when, as naval lieutenant and Harvard undergraduate...