Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having started with the Post Office as a clerk ut 1935, Jesse Donaldson Jr., 38, began catching up with his father, the nation's first career-man Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin. His latest appointment: assistant chief inspector of the U.S. Post Office...
...Hander. It is now a matter of deep mortification in Pittsburgh that Stan Musial originally dreamed of being a Pirate. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, the Pirates never dreamed of Stan Musial until it was too late. Stan was born in Donora, Pa. (about 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh), where his father, Lukasz Musial, a Polish immigrant, worked at the zinc mill to support a wife and six kids...
...variety show, spiced with Fadiman's pontifical urbanity, Burrows' gags, and the astringent flavoring of Kaufman's strong dislikes (nightclubs, classical music, opera). The panel still listened to problems, but with more than half an ear for contrived comedy. (A soprano complains that her father won't let her go to Dallas without a chaperone. Fadiman: "Doesn't your father trust you?" Soprano:. "Yes, but he doesn't trust anyone else...
...make matters worse, his dead father, famed Sir Dagobert, had always been a very model of knighthood, had throttled a hawk at the age of two, killed a wild boar at six. Willie wasn't impressed by such accounts, but his mother, the Dame de Littlehampton, wouldn't let him forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted...
While John was intoning that F.D.R. "was like a father to me. I loved him . . ." Ellen let him have both barrels of her repressed contempt: "I hate him, and I hate you-part of you . . . That man-this place-they've eaten you up, between them. Eaten up everything that was alive and honest and decent, everything I respected. You're not a man any more . . . You're a piece of-of protoplasm...