Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Soldier Omar Bradley mounted the pulpit in the Central Christian Church of Moberly, Mo. Flyer Jimmy Doolittle flew his first Superfortress. Georgie Patton went to Sunday school; Carl Spaatz visited his 78-year-old mother (who told him: "You're just my baby boy"); leathery Alexander Patch brought back the gaudiest trophy yet: gewgawful Marshal Goring's diamond-studded marshal's baton...
...Guildhall ceremony over, Ike Eisenhower was entertained at lunch by the Lord Mayor. He received the Order of Merit from the King, was later granted an audience by the Queen Mother, who astonished him by offering him a cigaret, taking one herself. Winston Churchill, beaming with professional admiration, clapped him on the back and said of the speech: "Well done, Ike, very well done." London's press beamed...
...Clarence Craft's lieutenant: "I could think of only one thing-that damn fool is determined to get out of the Army either via the Medal of Honor or death." ¶J Clarence Craft's mother: "He's the most accurate thrower I ever saw. Why, I've seen that boy kill fish in a stream throwing rocks at them, home in Missouri." ¶I The New York Times: "Great must be the rejoicing among all the Clarences of this world...
...eight-year-old Texas boy with a smoking shotgun in his hand was found fast asleep on the foot of the bed where his mother lay dead of a shotgun wound...
...Best performance by an actress: Laurette Taylor, as the nagging, down-at-the.-heel mother in The Glass Menagerie...