Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inman tried the same remedy on an eight-year-old boy, but it failed because he told somebody. So Inman instructed him to "steal a potato from his mother's store, halve it, touch each wart with the raw surface, 'and then bury the potato in the backyard by the light of the full moon - all in the greatest secrecy." Those warts went away, too. The doctor cured an adult of a shin wart by having him apply saliva with his finger...
...drinkers out and waved the moppets in. They perched on bar stools or sat on, around and sometimes under the tables to watch Radigan's television: Du Mont's Small Fry Club, WATV's Junior Frolics, and such. Creepers and toddlers were allowed to bring mother along. At 7, the barkeep swept out the bairns and let the guzzlers in again...
Around 3 a.m., Betty called it a night. When she got back to her Park Avenue apartment there was her mother, still up and indignant. Cried Mrs. Faulkner: "You gypped me." Betty soothed her. Next month, she promised, mother was going to get a really big party to celebrate her 96th birthday. It would be at the St. Regis or maybe the Stork Club. She would let the photographers know in plenty of time...
Curvy Rita Hayworth, relaxing on the French Riviera after transfusions in Paris (TIME, July 5), looked at the bright side of her ordeal: "I already have Spanish blood (from Father) and Irish blood (from Mother), but I am proud that now there also flows the blood of a Paris fireman in my veins...
...hypochondriac, he is always conscious of drafts. He himself has had four serious illnesses; his first wife suffered from tuberculosis and his elder daughter died of it. His wife, his daughter and his mother all died within a year. Says he, with misty eyes: "There were three coffins in my apartment that year. It became quite impossible...