Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom he was named, was a Missouri Congressman for 26 years, for eight years was a powerful Speaker of the House, in 1912 was the strongest contender for the Democratic presidential nomination against Woodrow Wilson. TIME'S Clark grew up in the shadow of the Capitol, while his father. Bennett Champ Clark, was two-term Senator from Missouri, later judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. For a rare professional view of a Congressman fulfilling his constitutional function (and Champ Clark's 31st TIME cover story), see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Meeting the People...
...home in Marietta, Ohio, back in 1880, Charley Dawes outraged his family by playing the flute in the Democrats' campaign band, while his own father was running for Congress on the Republican ticket (he won). Later, Charles ("Hell 'n' Maria") Dawes became a Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life...
...match up the elements from Comes a Day in Column A below with the plays in which these elements have previously appeared (Column B).* Column A Column B 1. Mother slaves away all day to support her family, even renting out rooms in the big old house, while improvident father boozes. a. The Glass Menagerie 2. Mother clutches about her the fading rags of her social pretensions. b. Picnic 3. Father really loves his children, but he can't communicate with them, can't get through to them. c. Look Homeward, Angel 4. Beautiful young girl has trouble deciding whether...
...Comes a Day had had the sort of actors its merits deserved, the results would be difficult to imagine, though some clues are provided by Arthur O'Connell as drunken father Lawton and Brandon de Wilde as his (overwritten, overdirected) son. The daughter of the Lawton household--a perceptive character study by the way; score one for Mr. Lamkin--wants to marry Mr. Scott's character for his money, but is torn by an enormous letch for a hot water heater salesman. Diana van der Vlis is excellent in this role, and Larry Hagman is good as her stud. Ruth...
...latest in the Brattle's series of Bogart thrillers (Bogie plays the unseen, unheard Father-Confessor) is a somewhat low-budget cinema version of Thomas Mann's last novel. In The Confessions of Felix Krull, Mann presented a highly amusing account of one aspect of the Teutonic mind. His Felix Krull is a magnificently amoral charcater; his portrayal of Felix's life is exciting enough to stimulate readers to enter the Harvard confidence game...