Word: fathering
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Peterson's father was president of the University of Utah from 1916 to 1945, and Peterson was later an assistant clinical professor of medicine there. He now succeeds Dr. John A. Dixon, who is leaving the Utah administration to return full-time to teaching and medical practice
Born in Manhattan in 1904, Fats grew up in Harlem, where his father was a pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the establishment that Adam Clayton Powell Jr. later made famous. He started playing the harmonium when he was six, and his proud father took him to Carnegie Hall to hear Paderewski, hoping that Fats would become a classical pianist. Waller had other ideas, however, and when he was in his teens, he fell under the tutelage of Willie ("the Lion...
Flick inherited his fortune from his blood-and-iron father, Friedrich...
...simple story: a provincial boy and girl fall in love despite their parents' objections and plan to elope to Paris. His father dies as they are about to leave, and the girl, not knowing why he missed the train, goes on without him-to become Adolphe Menjou's lavishly kept woman in the capital. Later they meet, there is promise of love's renewal, but circumstances and her lover's priggishness intervene. Tragedy and then a coda at once ironic and uplifting end the picture...
Graphic sneaked into a lavish stag party to secretly record unspeakable acts performed by a naked circus troupe. That her camera caught her own father in midslather and led to his financial ruin was of little concern. Her ambition had already driven her to beard a haughty Alfred Stieglitz in his own studio-with his own camera. Other victims of Maude's lens included D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Raymond Chandler and Robert Frost, "the biggest son of a bitch I was ever to photograph." E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann get flattering portraits...