Word: mamma
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...mightier than the sword-that man of letters ("Dear Mamma") Harry S. Truman...
...celebrate the impending release of his movie, Sincerely Yours, Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace threw a party at his new San Fernando Valley home. Mamma Liberace supplied meat balls around a swimming pool built in the shape of a piano, and the host was served up in a black suit and gold tie studded with rhinestones. Asked by a guest how he got away with such sartorial splendor, Liberace replied: "It takes guts...
...tenderhearted Japanese public was properly indignant. Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun last week carried a tearjerking headline: MAMMA AND BABY MARIMO FOUND. The pair had been abandoned in a milk bottle on a train from Hokkaido. The Japanese love marimos, as pets and as national treasures, and they hate anybody heartless enough to abuse them...
Both Naomi and Max were good to Dickie only when it made them feel good. But the first time he saw mamma on stage, her performance made him cry. He knew then that the theater meant more to her than Dickie Savage. As for Max, he had his books to write, his pleasures to enjoy, his mistresses to cope with. But he tried to keep Dickie virginal, scolded him for wanting to be a poet, tried in fact to keep him from doing what Max Town had done...
...When mamma marries a dull and decent man, then leaves him again for the theater, Dickie is the least surprised person in England. When one of Max's mistresses dies on his hands, and he, at 60, goes off with another, that too seems reasonable enough. With World War II just around the corner, Dickie Savage has in fact grown up and become a bit blasé. Heritage does not say that creative people are exempt from the rules of ordinary decency. But Author West tries to understand them and suggests that even illegitimacy and neglect...