Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thorough knowledge of the workings of the U.S. Government. He is one of the few men in history who has held high office in all its three branches. Born to poverty, on the wrong end of Charleston's King Street, he ran errands for his widowed mother (a seamstress), studied shorthand, learned to know politicians as a court reporter...
...year ago the War Department announced the death of Louis Zamperini, onetime University of Southern California track star and 1936 Olympics miler-an announcement which his mother, in Torranee, Calif., refused to believe. Last week Lou Zamperini turned up. From Yokohama, Correspondent Robert Trumbull cabled the New York Times the story of what Zamperini had endured...
Princess Gladys de Polignac of France's famed champagne family, Pommery (she married into it; her American mother married Le Petit Parisien's publisher), arrived in the U.S. on a Red Cross hunt for dental supplies, posed with a cluster of store teeth that was something new in costume jewelry. Item on her shopping list: four million false teeth...
...interviews, and in turn interviewed U.S. newsmen. (Didn't they agree that the bombing of Japanese cities was horrible?) The U.P. came up with an eyewitness description of atom-bombed Hiroshima from its onetime Tokyo office manager, Honolulu-born Leslie Nakashima, who went there to look up his mother. Wrote he: "I was dumfounded at the destruction before me. The center of the city . . . was razed and there was a sweeping view to the foot of the mountains. ... I found my mother safe. She had been weeding grass in a field about two miles southeast of the city when...
Mexican Refuge. Author de Palencia, born in Malaga of a Spanish father and a Scottish mother, has long interpreted Spain and its politics to the outside world. Madrid correspondent for several London papers and lecturer in both Britain and the U.S., author of two novels and a book on child psychology, she also served as Spanish delegate to the ILO and to the League of Nations...