Word: moms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip to California and a broken pair of skis, she meets the shaggy but debonair Brent. Although he isn't the "marrying type," Miss Stanwyck gets so enthused that this doesn't phase her at all. But when her friends start talking and the jitterbugging boys get score because Mom has forgotten Pop so soon, she decides she can't go off with Brent. Brent saves the day by becoming the marrying type after...
...letter arrived about midmorning. By noon, thanks to motherly Mrs. Florence Ethel Colby, 60, who minded the village switchboard in the parlor of her white frame house, everyone in Geetingsville, Ind. (pop. 27) knew what the letter said: "Dear Mom and Dad: This is awful hard to tell. My chaplain told me to write and tell you that I am charged with murder and have been sentenced to be shot. Get an attorney and try to have this sentence reduced." It was signed...
...designed restaurant posters in return for his meals and sat up nights working out comic-strip ideas. He wrote Mom: "You asked if I had been dissipating. If two shows and a few chocolate sundaes could be called dissipating then I'm a playboy...
When he sold eight cartoons to the Arizona Highway magazine, he wrote Mom exuberantly: "By return mail will come a BEE-OO-TIFUL check for $16! Of course $2 isn't a heck...
...Arizona was Mom. In New Mexico was his brother Sidney. In San Diego was Pop, married again, working in an aircraft plant. Pop had something to talk over with him. Pop had good-naturedly accused Bill of using him as a model for Willie (see cut). People, noting the resemblance, stopped him on the street. Bill had replied: "I'm not saying anything...