Word: mamma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marries Frank Duncan, clacked the gossips around the Santa Barbara, Calif, courthouse. The owl-eyed lawyer was arrogant and humorless, lisped so noticeably that teasing court clerks called him a "wicked wascal wabbit" behind his back. But that was the lesser half of it: Frank at 29 was a mamma's boy. Matronly, smartly dressed Elizabeth Duncan, separated from her husband when Frank was a child, held her son's hand in court, applauded when he won a case, tongue-lashed the district attorney when he lost. So tight was the noose that once, when Frank threatened...
...Mamma said that you was near...
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...SECRET, by Alba de Céspedes. Mamma, with grown children and a husband who takes her for granted, is an Italian; but she stands for the mammas of all countries who belatedly think that devotion to home and family have robbed them of more exciting ways to live. Author de Céspedes is a better guide to the female heart and mind than most of the psychologists in the bookstalls...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). "Mother Goose" will give Shirley's own children a chance to edge Mamma offstage. Color...