Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sorry, man, I left my drums at home. I travel light, but I'm all set to go, if you know what I mean...
...team when he was 16. Casey Stengel, then manager of the Toledo Mud Hens, asked for the boy, but irascible John McGraw snarled: "Neither you nor any other minor-league manager is going to ruin that kid. He stays with me." Stay he did-long enough to hit 511 home runs, score 1,859 runs, bat in another 1,860, draw 1,708 bases on balls (all National League records that still stand). He batted over .300 in eleven seasons, led the league in homers six times, wound up with a lifetime average of .304. Giant fans called...
Houseboat (Paramount), according to the advancemen, is "a story of Togetherness," a warm, human comedy of American family life, written with "true realism." Father (Gary Grant) is "charming and debonair"-but unfortunately he has been away from home for several years. Mother is rich and beautiful-but unhappily she is a bad driver and gets killed in a car crash. The children (Charles Herbert, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen), as the scriptwriters seem to think, are all that any American parent could hope to have-"carefree, gay, and at times in need of psychiatric care...
...Jinx. Joylessness begins at home for Alfred Eaton in the turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania town of Port Johnson. Alfred's brother is the apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact...
Worst-Kept Secret. Back home after World War I, Alfred tackles a career and marriage. He and his best big-rich college pal begin manufacturing airplanes, and Alfred woos and wins a Wilmington, Del. socialite named Mary St. John, who subconsciously loves Alfred's trust fund about as much as she does Alfred. Eaton shortly abandons the sky for "The Street" (Wall) and later bars Mary from his bed but not board after she has an affair with an ambisextrous psychoanalyst. Alfred in turn is smitten with a nacreous 22-year-old named Natalie, and thus begins...