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...Wild Irish Mother," a woman with an unquenchable sense of humor. "After all the money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently, "if I die of anything else, I'll shoot myself." For years she called her daughter "Biddy Jean," until a nun at Scranton's Marywood Seminary put a stop to it on the ground that the term biddy was an insult to Irish womanhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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