Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torch Carrier. In Eiseldorf, Germany, Farmer's Daughter Agnes Schwimmbeck, questioned about setting fire to her father's barn and farmhouse, confessed that she loved a member of the local volunteer fire brigade, wanted to lure him to the farm...
...corporate-profit sheets, Pontiac stood second only to Chevrolet; around the G.M. building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill Knudsen insisted that his son be on his own. When Bunky was 14, his father told him that he could have a new (1927) Chevrolet if he would stop at the plant. Bunky hurried over-and found the car in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months to assemble the darn thing," he says, "but I finally got it running." THE challenge turned...
...there. His work day is ten hours long, and part of every evening is spent slamming Pontiacs, a new one each day, around the roughest roads he can find. Knudsen, who fidgets when he hears his success mentioned, likes to recall one of the few pieces of advice his father gave him: "Before you tell someone how good you are, you must tell him how bad vou used...
...vitriolic H. L. Mencken. With Maryland gallantry he summed up the case: Aimee was accused of immorality and, when she denied it, prosecuted. No Maryland court or jury would ever behave so caddishly to a lady, Mencken said, and with heavy irony: "Unless I err grievously, our Heavenly Father is with...
Aparajito (Indian). This sequel to Father Panchali by brilliant Director Satyajit Ray movingly describes an Indian family's sorrowful, hopeful encounter with modern times...