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...days are gone when a father could write to a 19-year-old son to "form no plans; your mama and I have been thinking and planning for you" (from the Rev. Jedidiah Morse in 1810). Nowadays, says Author Valentine, fathers are simply too unsure of themselves to write really rattling letters to any son past the age of twelve. Significantly, the best letters toward the end of the book are the ones written to small children, including the notes from Kenneth Grahame to his four-year-old son Alistair that were the genesis of The Wind in the Willows...
Corie's mama (Mildred Natwick) drops in earlier. So does Victor Velasco (Kurt Kaszner), an average Continental charmer. This sets a zany subplot in motion: Can a lonely New Jersey pill popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold...
...Margaret Williams, raises the curtain on a new Broadway season, but the play is haunted by the tired ghosts of seasons past. To Love is still another family comedy, the sempiternal soap opera of the theater. This time, the family is British, part tea cozy and part zany. Mama (Claudette Colbert), a one-woman S.P.C.A. who identifies with small fur-bearing animals, has just done an eight-month stretch in jail for blowing up two fur shops with homemade bombs. Daughter is going to have an illegitimate child by an accountant who apparently lacks the caution proper to his vocation...
...Mama's Children. The two leaders did just about everything else, as they ranged the country from quake-shattered Skoplje to wild Montenegro, where after a picnic the mountainfolk broke into the kolo, a fiery, foot-stamping circle dance. Khrushchev and his stolid wife Nina, and Tito and his statuesque spouse Jovanka, broke into the ring, swirling around with the pretty girls and peasants...
...ever have trouble between workers and directors?" Assured that disagreements were always worked out, Khrushchev shook his head skeptically and said, "You're a little boastful but, of course, Mama always says her children are the most beautiful. You've got your shortcomings -but then so do we." Plaster Bust. Warming up, Khrushchev demanded: "What is the most important problem now? It is to beat capitalism. The one who creates the most through mass production will...