Word: mom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cattleman Pat Graves hopped in his 1950 Buick one day last week and raced the nine miles from a Denver bank to his 280-acre ranch outside town. He hustled into the kitchen of his one-story ranch house, and sat down to lunch "Well Mom," said Graves to his pretty red-haired wife, "here we are with mor'n half a million in the bank, and look what we're eatin'." In the bowl were ham hocks and lima beans. Graves had just been paid $505,039.33, one of the biggest checks ever made...
...Disappearance indicates that if Author Wylie has not entirely forgiven his old whipping girl, "Mom," he has at least come around to the chivalrous belief that the weasel in her life is "Pop." It also indicates that Crusader Wylie takes his new thesis pretty seriously: men & women are already badly divided, and it may be later than the world thinks...
...prowls back & forth on the platform, crouching like a boxer (he was once an excellent amateur), leaping forward to his full height, gesticulating expressively, sweeping his listeners along. Sometimes he interrupts to point out his mother. "Stand up, Mama, and let the folks see you. There's my mom," he cries, as the congregation applauds. And then he tugs at heartstrings: "You all remember little redheaded Oliver Crockett who used to sit right down there and sing so loud every Sunday. Well, you will be shocked as I was when they called me last night to say he died...
...viewers are promised such future attractions as The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Stevenson's Kidnapped and a production based on Hamlet in which a child, playing a private detective, will solve the murder of Hamlet's father. The only taboos on the show are still the words "Mom and "kiddies." Says Tripp: "They just stick in my throat." About all that wil] be added are a sponsor (Nestle's Chocolate) and a few more realistic props in the hope that they might, possibly, win over some teenagers...
...last month, he had seen enough. "Mom," he wrote home, "this place is getting me down...