Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mom." In Chicago, he lived at a "magnificent hotel" (the Y.M.C.A.), and wrote numerous letters to his mother. He was impressed by the fact that Chicago had 1,156,000 telephones, 5,100 lawyers, 3,400 dentists, 9,200 physicians. At his first life class at the Institute, he blushed furiously: the naked model was a girl. "Man, does she have a shape!" he wrote to his mother...
Finally he went back home to his mother in Phoenix, Ariz, (his parents were divorced). He kept on drawing cartoons. In 1940 he joined the Arizona National Guard, later switched to Oklahoma's 45th Division, so he could draw for the Division's News...
...eight Moultons were born and raised in a 15-ft.-square log cabin that Father Belah Moulton built on a homesteaded tract near Reed City, Mich, after returning from the Civil War. Despite their poverty, Mother Mary Moulton, who had been a country school teacher, insisted that every last one of the children get an education. Every one of them did. But Sister Mary, after years of country school-teaching, did not get her A.B. until 15 years...
...Puddle Family, lifted bodily from a comic strip. A year's trial convinced him that his daytime drama was on the right track-but he felt he needed something more emotionally robust than the comic-strip Puddles. Why not build a plot around a kindly, sympathetic prototype of mother? Ma Perkins was last week being renewed for still another (her 13th) year...
...patient and easygoing man. In his 17 years as New York Times correspondent in Italy, Cortesi managed to get along with Fascist officials while many another newsman was kicked out of the country. Cortesi (rhymes with more-lazy) had to get along: he was an Italian citizen. (His mother was from Boston; his father was Associated Press bureau chief in Rome for 29 years...