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...Hallams (by Rose Franken; produced by William Brown Meloney) are the same Manhattan family that Playwright Franken wrote about, 16 years ago, in Another Language. Most of them are now distinctly middleaged, almost all of them still invincibly middleclass. Doughty Grandma Hallam (well played by Ethel Grimes) still trumpets the glories and responsibilities of the Hallams' name, still tries to keep them all together-and all of them under her thumb...
...make it a little rougher on these certain women who are selfish enough to hide their better features, the guys in Theta Chi Fraternity at M.I.T. have vowed not to date (or even whistle at) any women wearing "their grandma's dresses...
...Among those who didn't were parents who discovered that fourth-graders could not hold their own in a spelling bee. Miss Seeds's frame schoolhouse became more of an embattled blockhouse than an ivory tower. One parent complained that her child could not even read her grandma's handwriting. "Who can?" retorted Miss Seeds...
Rose Without Thorns. "The average family consists of Pop and Mom, Grandma, son and daughter of college age, and Junior, who looks best asleep. Junior is a great one for saying his prayers. He also says Go jump in a pond; G'wan, kiss the guy; Mom, why doesn't Pop come home to us anymore...
...publicity," Grandma Moses remarked, "that Im too old to care for now." The little old lady has spent almost all her life in peaceful obscurity, farming, and educating her ten children (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). She herself never went to school much, "owing to the cold, and not warm enough clothing." But last week she did try her unschooled hand at an article (in the New York Times Magazine) to explain how she goes about painting. The Times printed it just as she wrote it. Excerpt...