Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parishioners, soon learned that he was not the only target of the poison penman. One woman came to him and threatened to throw herself off the cliff if she got another insulting letter. A respected old villager was accused of fathering his own daughter's child. A heartbroken mother, whose baby had just died, was accused of killing the baby herself. Some thought the letters must come from a member of the church choir: caustic remarks about their singing regularly arrived for the choristers. Sample: "If you must sing, get some bird seed...
Parasites & Prosecutors. For Billie, the reformatory experience seemed the culmination of a tough-luck life. When she was born in Baltimore 33 years ago, her mother was 13, her father 15, and they didn't bother to get married until Billie was three. She began to work at six, scrubbing steps before school and minding babies after, was only 14 ("big for my age, had big breasts, big bones") when she got her first singing job in a Harlem joint at $2 a night. Her first record (Tapping the Barrel) was made with a green young band leader named...
...next 15 years, Irene lived as Papa L.B. had planned. Hollywood knew her as a pleasant hostess and mother (of Jeffrey, 15, and Daniel, 11). What Hollywood did not know was that Irene had been quietly studying a variety of subjects, such as architecture, painting, medicine, psychology, sociology-and show business...
...uncon-incingly-commits suicide in protest; his elder son (Burt Lancaster) returns home to ferret out his secret. The father becomes at last fully aware of the dimensions of his crime and of the shallowness of his excuses. Among the lesser plot problems: will the dead boy's mother (Mady Christians) ever accept the fact of his death...
...Search. A mild but touching picture, made in Occupied Germany, about a refugee child and his mother (TIME, March...