Word: mamas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many times a day or a week someone tells his "Mama" in Berlin or Hamburg that "little Kurt" is all right and will leave the hospital next Wednesday, no one knows. But Allied authorities think that too frequently "Mama" is the German Navy, "little Kurt" is an Allied ship loading in some South American harbor with goods for the U.S. or Britain. Many ships have gone down just after leaving port; for Nazi U-boats, South American waters are a fruitful hunting ground...
...same general theme as his Suspicion (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941)-the slow, terrible growth of fear of a loved one. But Shadow, from beginning to end, is a surpassingly better picture. Its horror is compounded by its setting: an exquisitely commonplace family in a familiar small California town. Mama (Patricia Collinge) is a fluttery hen whose family has become too much for her. The kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper to trade amiable schemes...
...brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
...intimate report of the legendary Sarah. Biographer Verneuil is La Bernhardt's grandson-in-law who, like all her household, except her son Maurice, always addressed Actress Bernhardt simply as "Great." Verneuil is also a French playwright who is known in the U.S. for his Broadway plays (Oh, Mama, Matrimony Preferred) and movies (True Confession, My Life with Caroline...
...developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most of their $222-a-year board and tuition. The other part is a school for farmers' families-papa, mama and all the kids...