Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Nancy Walker, 28, rowdy comedienne of stage (Look, Ma, I'm Dancin!) and screen (Best Foot Forward); and David Craig, 27, Tin-Pan Alley lyricist; she for the second time; in Hoboken...
...frail 14th child of a gentle Methodist pastor named Jonathan and an unyielding force of nature named Mary. "You could argue just as well with a wave," her favorite son once said. Baby Stephen's first intelligible query is supposed to have been: "Ma, how do you spell O?" He was obviously destined to be a writer. When he died of tuberculosis at 28, he had been that and other things...
...Margaret and Katie Fox, two mischievous little girls of Hydesville, N.Y., thought up a way to mystify their ma. In bed at night they tied an apple to a string and bumped it loudly on the floor. Hearing the sonorous raps, Mrs. Fox climbed upstairs to investigate, and of course found both children apparently fast asleep. Cried puzzled Mother Fox: "Is this a disembodied spirit that has taken possession of my dear children...
Died. General Ma Chan-shan, 65, onetime Chinese war hero; in Peking. Little, shaven-polled General Ma was both an illiterate, sharpshooting militarist (who bragged that he could shoot birds from a galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler...
...untrained ear the change was virtually undetectable. The Green Hornet, The Lone Ranger ("Hi-yo, Silver -awa-a-a-a-a-y!")» Soo-oo-per-ma-a-an, The Shadow, and an ear-shattering collection of other thrillers kept on blasting through millions of loudspeakers; the announcer's thrilling command-"Ask mother nOw!"-echoed louder than ever. Fancier and more complicated box-top premiums (Planetary Maps, Atomic Bomb Rings, Magni-glow Writing Rings, Detective Badges, Compass-Magnifying Glasses, Explorer's Sun Watches) came flooding through the mails...