Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phoebe Ephron, moved from Boston to Broadway riding an unplanned gale of publicity: the quiz show scandals. Howie (Albert Salmi) is a hulking ex-deck ape, the kind of guy who knows everything except when to shut up. He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids-in short, the perfect quiz contestant. But when his sister-in-law (Patricia Bosworth) helps con him into going on a quiz show, he refuses $96,000 after he discovers that his opponent has got a fast shuffle...
...coast, there followed a barrage of press releases -soothing, aggressive, clinical, statesmanlike. Liz went into hiding. Eddie and Debbie had a fight within earshot of newsmen ("What's the matter with you, anyway?" cried she). Everybody was retroactively psychoanalyzed-Eddie had never been close to his father, had always been wild, but now he felt guilty; Debbie was really domineering; Liz-well, Liz was too beautiful for her own good ("I've the body of a woman and the emotions of a child," she had said once in a moment of self-analysis...
Parents all over the U.S. one night last week looked at their children with uneasy wonder. Was it possible that a seemingly normal little boy of eight could murder his mother and father in their sleep...
...clicked. No motive appeared; the house was not robbed, and how the prowler entered was unclear. Questioned repeatedly, little Dean told conflicting versions of the sequence of events. Some cops were struck by the boy's unusual intelligence, others by his consistent lack of emotion. ("My mother and father's dead," he told one cop after the tragedy, and rode off on his bike...
...lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later, he told police, he stole downstairs for a kitchen knife, crept back up and killed his sleeping parents. Did his dying mother, then, pass on to the police Dean's own description of the "prowler...