Word: mama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assunda, moved to Toledo. In those days, the Di Salle family (expanded by three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots of pasta and ruled her brood with a stern Catholic hand...
...Mama and its sponsor, Maxwell House Coffee, have one of the few happy commercial marriages in television. The fragile mood of each show builds steadily without being split down the middle by TV's most distressing habit: the long-winded advertising plug. The commercials are blended skillfully into family coffee klatsches at the beginning and end of each program...
...show's distinguished ancestry includes Kathryn Forbes's bestselling novel, Mama's Bank Account, John van Druten's Broadway hit, I Remember Mama, and the movie based on the play. But Producer Irwin and Director Ralph Nelson have not borrowed a single episode from the play and novel. They prefer to concentrate on the basic characters, the locale (San Francisco) and the period (early 1900s). Since the program started, there has been only one major cast change. A spare kinescope (television recording), kept handy in case one of the principals should be taken ill, has never...
...Mama was terrified" when Flo Nightingale announced she wanted to be a nurse. In 1845, any mother would have felt the same way. Nurses were dirty, drunken, promiscuous. Florence Nightingale would change all that as she was to change many things. British army privates in their fetid barracks, smug bureaucrats in the musty War Office, viceroys in palaces were all to feel the reach of her will and missionary zeal...
...born to them late, when each was close to 40, partly because she was a delicate child thin and pale, with frequent deep circles under her eyes. There were other doting relatives: a cluster of uncles and aunts Mrs. David ("Grandmother") Wallace. Bess's mother, and redoubtable Grandmother ("Mama") Truman. Margaret admits that "I was spoiled outrageously...