Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 36, sailed for a six-week concert tour of Europe with 34 pieces of luggage including 60 complete changes of costume plus a custom-made $15,000 glass-topped piano. Meanwhile, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, unregenerate enemy of "momism" and of Liberace as "mom's darling boy," muttered darkly that Liberace is "a superannuated Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he came to Miami, I was going to round up every guy with any masculinity, and we were going to stone that guy to death with marshmallows...
...Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three." With this beginning, Billie Holiday, a singer who broke the hearts of a generation of jazz lovers, sets out to reveal what lies behind the blues−or at least her blues. Before she is through, she has lined out some bitter truths about being a Negro in the U.S. and some that are not too sweet about being a narcotics addict...
Impartially athletic, Robin switched to basketball with the season. When his mother would try to get him to do some work around the place, he would put her off: "Naw, Mom. I'm a ballplayer. You just wait till I get into the major leagues. Then I'll build you a house." Even Tom Roberts came to respect his son's determination. "You just had to go along," he says today. "He wouldn't do nuthin' else...
...then to $25,000. Roberts signed. "I would've signed for $2,500," he admits now, "only they didn't know it. When they got up to $25,000, I knew I was going to be able to buy a pretty good house for Mom, so I said yes. She really got a belt out of that house...
...they are forthright ("I've been workin' hard the whole week long/But I'm gonna have some wine, women and song"), candid ("If she's a honkytonk angel, I'm the devil that made her that way"), sincere ("I mean a lot to my Mom and Pop/I just hope I mean somethin...