Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes were "like the clear summer sky," her name was Serafima, which means "angel," and she lived with her mother. What's more, they had two whole rooms. So Factory Worker Udod paid Serafima 20,000 rubles, married her and moved in. In Moscow, where housing space was scarcer than Trotskyites in the Kremlin, a man could be proud of such a bargain...
Udod's happiness was brief. Serafima made him sleep in a separate room. When the 20,000 rubles were spent, the girl's mother began yearning for the days when there had been no man in the house. Serafima's blue eyes gleamed; she could fix that easily enough. One morning when Udod was buckling his galoshes she bashed him over the head with a sharp piece of iron. Blood splashed on the walls. Serafima, a tidy girl, repainted the room...
Last week, a twelve-year-old Hiroshima schoolboy with a ragged scar over his left eye peered at a TIME correspondent through glasses he has worn ever since the bombing. Said Hiroshima's child: "You American? American soldier good. Americans number one." His mother and sister, he said, had been killed by the bomb...
...lost arms of the Venus de Milo, a keyhole, Harvey (Mary Chase's mythical rabbit). An offstage filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby Van Deventer, who have learned to narrow the field of possibility so quickly that they often guess the answer...
...hand, was left. She was proclaimed Miss Canada with pert Miss Muriel Hunter of Hamilton close behind her (see cut). Excitedly she tried to explain that she had entered the contest only on the urging of her family. Said she: "If it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't be here tonight...