Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important woman. Wives are encouraged to write posters drawing attention to their husbands' shortcomings-and do. With depressing frequency newspapers throughout China carry reports such as the following: "Young Wei Kuo-chu, a student at Shin Tung High School, Shanghai, is cited and congratulated for having denounced his father as a counter-revolutionary...
...Minute Conclave. The names of the two tying candidates were written on pieces of paper and dropped into a tarboosh. Father Paul W. Romley of Pittsburgh, a young American priest who does not read Arabic, drew one name. Out came the name of Moawad, and the pro-Soviet candidate was out of the running. Said one pro-Western prelate later: "The decision was left...
...either into politics or into the priesthood. Richard James Gushing was born there 63 years ago, but he almost did neither; once, discouraged by low grades at Boston College High School and worried about family finances, he almost quit school to find a job. But with his blacksmith father's encouragement, he stuck it out to become a priest-and those early bad grades were soon forgotten. He was a bishop at 43, and an archbishop at 49, when he succeeded Boston's autocratic old William Cardinal O'Connell...
Died. Samuel H. Stiefel. 61, white man sometimes known as "The Father of Negro Show Business," who as a bigtime theater operator gave early breaks to such stars as Pearl Bailey. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Cab Galloway; of a kidney infection; in Philadelphia...
Houseboat (Paramount), according to the advancemen, is "a story of Togetherness," a warm, human comedy of American family life, written with "true realism." Father (Gary Grant) is "charming and debonair"-but unfortunately he has been away from home for several years. Mother is rich and beautiful-but unhappily she is a bad driver and gets killed in a car crash. The children (Charles Herbert, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen), as the scriptwriters seem to think, are all that any American parent could hope to have-"carefree, gay, and at times in need of psychiatric care...