Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Card . . ." "I felt I had something to do in politics," says Spaak of this period, "but all the doors were closed." In 1935, a door opened. Premier Paul van Zeeland asked him to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Transport, Posts & Telegraphs. Spaak accepted. Then, excitedly, he telephoned his mother: "Maman, if your telephone breaks down, complain directly to me. I'm the new Communications Minister." The next year he became Foreign Minister...
...Thing. The Times's Brooks Atkinson noted her "high spirit and versatility"; the Herald Tribune's Howard Barnes found her "attractive and promising"; the Daily News's John Chapman, "entirely acceptable"; PM's Louis Kronenberger, "Fetching to look at... pleasant to listen to." Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt, back from London just in time to watch from the second row, told Columnist Earl Wilson that Faye looked real pretty...
...indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect in the central nervous system. No cure is known. Last week Beverly's mother, Mrs. Victor Smith, wife of a Firestone employee, took the baby home with a lot of advice from the doctors. She must watch Beverly constantly: the baby might break a bone and continue using it until it could not be set properly; she might develop appendicitis without nature...
...mats for his polysyllabic vocabulary, Wittenberg has a master's degree from Columbia's Teachers College, taught public school briefly before turning cop. He talks earnestly of "pectoral muscles" and "neural paths," is proud that he is one man who can mangle his opponent but not his mother tongue. After hours, he dabbles in oils and plays enthusiastic chess. In fact, he considers wrestling a kind of "body chess" ("You give a man a leg as a gambit"), thinks body position more important than individual holds...
...night before the mid-term algebra exams. Teacher Margaret Jokiel, a pretty blonde of 24, went off to a concert, to relax before the big day. She left her mother alone in the parlor. A little after 9, the phone rang...