Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tremendously pleased to see the picture of my father, Representative Howard W. Smith of Va., on the cover of TIME [Feb. 2]. However, I am weary of the same old adjectives used to describe this wonderful, complex man. "Dour," "doleful," "lanky," "bushy-browed," "wintry-eyed," and sometimes worse! I think it's time the public knew the other side of Howard Smith's nature...
...donor of the gift, has expressed the hope that "other things being equal" the scholarship might go, from time to time to "students from Mr. McCord's Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., or from other Oregon high schools, or from Lawrenceville in New Jersey, from which his father was graduated...
...were toddlers." Because they had been so close, Gertrude felt lost when he went off to Harvard, off to a man's world. Perhaps if Daniel Stein had not died when Gertrude was seventeen, she would have stayed in California. As it was, she wrote, "Life without a father began a very pleasant one." After settling the estate, Bertha, Leo, and Gertrude moved permanently to Baltimore, where they lived with relatives, the Bachrachs. Life in Baltimore agreed with Gertrude. Later she wrote that she became "more humanized and less adolescent and less lonesome in the restful surroundings...
...proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush with the police and the apparent ruin of his film career. Desperate, Margaret tries prayer to St. Anthony and, as a last resort, appeals to Father McBane, one of those all-wise priests so often found in contemporary British fiction...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Films covering the career of Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey...