Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What manner of man was this curly-haired, spectacled witness who looked more like a peaceful, carefully dressed clerk than a secret Government agent? For nine years he had led a double life. To his wife, blonde, blue-eyed Eva, Herb Philbrick was a good husband & father (they have four little daughters). To his employers, a Boston motion-picture theater chain, he was a go-getting assistant advertising manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield...
...lines to outlets blocks away. Frantically, many a man fought his way into the building after relatives. Some succeeded, but most were driven back by heat and the smell of burning flesh. Building Superintendent Frank Ries went in to hunt for his wife and never came out again. Prospective Father Arnold Aderman watched his wife come down a ladder, got her home just in time to have her baby...
That was all right with everybody but the young bucks of the town, and chief among them was the village president's son Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
Paul Samborski will catch for the Governor Dummer nine when his father, Coach Dolph, sends his freshman team into its second game of the season at 3 p.m. today on Soldiers Field...
...which would be impolite with these nice folks), they could possibly be said to have eliche personalities. In an era in which successful plays are almost invariably concerned with neurotics or eccentrics (the only recently successful 'domestic comedy,' that was not a farce, I can recall was "Life with Father," which mainly exploited Father's eccentricities, after all), it's rather nice to have some old ordinary people around...