Word: mamma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born 51 years ago in a sharecropper's cottage near Biella in the Piedmont, Pella was so bright in school that his parents were relieved of school taxes. Papa and Mamma Pella worked days and nights in a Piedmont spinning mill to send their only child on to the University of Turin (finance and economics) and into the business world. At 30 he commanded big fees as a consultant to the Piedmont textile industry. He went to Rome in 1946 as a parliamentary deputy; a year later Luigi Einaudi, now Italy's President, took him into the Finance...
...children, and in one day will be 34. "I have gotten old, haven't I?" she asks her brother. "Look at the wrinkles in my face. Now all that's left is to wait till the children grow up, get older and older, and then die. Like Mamma, poor dear...
...Atlantic City, Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mammas") tucker, celebrating her 50th anniversary in show business at 69, proved that she was right up to date by announcing her new number for next season: I'm a Three-D Mamma with a Big Wide Screen...
Once in a while Madeleine's luck did change. There was a fine interlude when she stayed with country relatives. Another time she and her mother went to live in a provincial town, inadvertently moved into a brothel. Her luck changed for good when, with mamma, she left Paris for London, became a hairdresser at the Savoy Hotel while mother did dressmaking. Today little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture...
...another of his drawings a mother and daughter are staring at a handsome young minister walking down the street; the mother says, "Rosalie, don't you think Mr. Aureole is a real ministering angel?" Her daughter replies, "No, mamma, but I think he's a real angelic minister...