Word: heartbroken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble is started by son Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive high-school senior who reads such radical thinkers as Shaw, Wilde and Ibsen. After innocently quoting a few of Swinburne's riper lines in a letter to his best girl, Richard is forbidden to see her again. Heartbroken, he vows to burn himself out in wild debauchery, settles for two sloe-gin fizzes with a local café dancer (Marilyn Maxwell...
...parishioners, soon learned that he was not the only target of the poison penman. One woman came to him and threatened to throw herself off the cliff if she got another insulting letter. A respected old villager was accused of fathering his own daughter's child. A heartbroken mother, whose baby had just died, was accused of killing the baby herself. Some thought the letters must come from a member of the church choir: caustic remarks about their singing regularly arrived for the choristers. Sample: "If you must sing, get some bird seed...
Last week, the rhymester, 47, wrote a suicide note leaving his worldly goods to his second wife. Then he jumped from his 12th-floor Manhattan studio. Don Wahn's last heartbroken lines appeared a day later...
Long after he has lost his family and, heartbroken, has retired from "business," he does get caught. By this time he is firmly convinced that good & evil are inextricably mingled-and has come to believe that he is not more essentially evil than good...
...JOHN (HEARTBROKEN) McNuLTY New York City...