Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chose a brand-new broom: Paul Baudouin, 45, second from left on TIME'S cover. After a brilliant flying career in World War I, Baudouin picked up some political point ers as private secretary to Finance Minis ters de Monzie, Caillaux, Painleve, Lou-cheur, Doumer. Having married a Ma demoiselle Angoulvant whose father was a high muck-a-muck in Indo-China, he went to work for the Bank of Indo-China, made a beeline for the East. In five years he became general manager. Recently he had been back in France working with Reynaud in the Council...
...office appeal; with director John Ford, whose skill in recreating the stark reality of Steinbeck's situations and in preserving variety where repitition would have been easy, has made of the film more than the vehicle for a message; and with the actors--especially Jane Darwell, Ma Joad--whose performances are well-nigh jawless...
...James H. McIntosh '84, Gerrish Newell '96, William M. Kendall '76, James Byrne '77, and Mitchell D. Follansbee '92. McIntosh is the oldest living ex-president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and Kendall and Byrne were the oldest alumni who registered yesterday. Newell, brother of the famous athlete, Marshall "Ma" Newell '95, after whom Newell boathouse was named, has long been the motivating force of the New Jersey Harvard Club. Follansbee, who has attended "all but two or three" of the 43 Harvard Club meetings, commented that "if I weren't a Puritan, I'd say it was the best...
...Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me! (Universal) falls chronologically between Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, continues Universal's minor cycle of pictures named for resuscitated song hits. Its original plot, whereby grinning Tom Brown and ululant Constance Moore salvage a swank insolvent dress shoppe by high-priced publicity and low-priced gowns, is the brain child of Columnist-errant Ed Sullivan (TIME, April...
Among his audience there was no President, but, in a box near home plate, were three spectators young Feller was just as anxious to please: his parents and his kid sister Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...