Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warehouse robbery, police came across the 28 dusty boxes which Stephen Blau had pawned. They contained paintings, coins, stamps and jewels worth 8,000,000 bolivianos ($200,000). The stamp collection alone was appraised at $30,000. A will was found leaving part of the fortune to his mother and nieces in Vienna, the rest to the President of Austria for charities...
...Johnny Weissmuller story was more in the classic mold. The mother of Allene Gates, a 22-year-old California golfer, announced that Johnny and her daughter were going to be married, just as soon as Johnny and his third wife got their impending divorce...
Standout among this year's squashmen is Adam Foster, whose smart playing has sparked the team for two seasons. In number two spot is Bill Weight man, whose mother is the donor of the Wightman Cup in tennis. Other regulars are George Stevens, Milt Heath, and Lane McGovern, whom earlier this year Coach Barnaby described as the most improved...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Marian Anderson, singing Dvorak's Songs My Mother Taught Me, Saint-Saëns' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice, and the spirituals, Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen and My Soul's Been Anchored in De Lord...
...accompanied and paralleled by the events of the Civil War period. His marriage to Susanna takes place at the time of John Brown's execution. Their child is born on the night after the cannonade against Fort Sumter. Then Johnny learns Susanna's secret: she fears her mother was not the woman her father married, but his mistress, a handsome mulatto. During the days of Gettysburg, her mind finally gives way and she burns down the house, killing her child...