Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly, the Marian Anderson cover was a Special Project. In fact, the Senior Editor in charge decided to write the story himself. The preliminary work involved talks with Miss Anderson, her mother, friends, teachers, impresarios, etc.' But the important work was done, the writer claims, one afternoon when he shut himself up with a phonograph and a heap of records of Negro spirituals and played them over & over...
...York judge, resurrecting a 37-year-old law, visited the sins of a son upon his mother. After her divorce in 1943, Genevieve Rivera had dumped her two children on her stepmother. She lived from one drink to another, in one apartment or another, with one man or another. Son Robert ran wild, took to playing hooky, slept in cellars and warehouses. Last month he was arrested for wounding three people with a .22 rifle he had stolen from a pawnbroker. Haled into court last week, 33-year-old Genevieve Rivera was sentenced to one year in prison for contributing...
...forints (introduced last August just as the pengo was inflated to 500,000,000,000,000,000 times its original value), they compared the coins with bald, homely Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, who was advertised as the father of the forint, and cracked: "It must have had a beautiful mother...
...Leningrad belatedly arrived an astrakhandid portrait of the author after a publicity man's heart (see cut). Elliott's answers to a couple of cozy questions on radio's Books on Trial: 1) "I am no Communist;" 2) "I did write the book myself. . . ." Mother Eleanor was his adviser, said he, and "severest critic...
...engaged to the jailed partner's daughter, has been missing in China for more than three years. His other son, the idealistic Chris, has come home, swallowed his father's protestations of innocence, and arranged to marry his missing brother's fiancee. But Chris's mother will not hear of it; she will not admit that Larry is dead. It becomes clear that she cannot admit it without recognizing the enormity (she has long known the truth) of her husband's misdeed. Eventually Chris, too, faces the truth. The old man, after agreeing to confess...