Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here I am a Stranger (20th Century-Fox). Blubber-lipped David Paulding (Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George...
...when David begins to see that the world he has been brought up in is false, alas, he totes his bruised adolescence off to Father No.1, long since weaned from the bottle by David's influence and now a city editor. But to protect Father No. 2's in with his biggest client, Mother has already got to Father No. 1, who runs out on David. Disillusioned, with much boyish charm David tells Mother she has made a nice mess of both their lives. She packs him off "where he belongs," to Father No. 1, who never...
...concerned about U. S. neutrality. Bishop Sheil had just returned from a visit to Rome, had hotfooted to Washington for a two-hour lunch in the White House. It then became known that his C. Y. 0. speech would be broadcast and that it would uphold the Administration, denounce Father Coughlin...
...Cincinnati's 450,000 citizens. Businessmen carried radios to their offices, golfers had caddies tote portables along with their clubs. For the Cincinnati Reds ("Our Boys" to baker and banker alike) were in the throes of their first pennant in 20 years and, like an expectant father, the whole town stood nervously by. At Crosley Field, in what oldtime ballplayers used to call a "crucial serious," Our Boys were playing the Cardinals-the swaggering, slugging Gas House Gang from St. Louis...
...Yale (1929) and Clare College, Cambridge, Paul Mellon read, wrote and rowed, decided on a literary career. Instead, his father got him into the Mellon National Bank. Last July he resigned as president and trustee of the National Gallery of Art at Washington (founded by Father Andrew) "because of business demands...