Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Stewart got a "meritorious service" citation from the General Federation of Women's Clubs, convening in Manhattan. When outgoing President Mrs. La Fell Dickinson fluffed her lines during the presentation, Actor Stewart, who looks as comforting as every mother's son should look, played his familiar role to the hilt...
...part they think I can rewrite. I twist the lines up, and they turn on the camera-of course, they may not have any film in it, but they pay me." Last year, the movies and radio paid him about $150,000. Edward's 88-year-old mother, after seeing him on the screen, once said gloomily: "I hope my son is saving his money...
Married. Henry Luce III, 22, son of the editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; and Patricia Livingston Potter, 20, daughter of John S. Potter, a Bank of China director, who flew from Shanghai for the ceremony; at the home of Mrs. Lila Tyng, the bridegroom's mother, in Gladstone...
...this book, prised out of him by his son Karl, with the help of some good stiff drinks of a Guatemalan liquor called olla. As the story of a wayward parent, My Danish Father is a lineal descendant of the family-chronicle light biography (Papa Was a Preacher; Mother Wore Tights). Son Karl, a lanky, amiable onetime United Press correspondent in China, made the best-seller lists 18 months ago with a variation on the theme called My Chinese Wife. In My Danish Father, he has mixed a frothy mortar of sex and exodontia. Readers are likely to find...
...Matter of Sentiment. In Los Angeles, a rummaging detective found a pair of brass knuckles in the home of Edna Franklin, had to accept her explanation that they were treasured family heirlooms handed down by her dear departed mother...