Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adventures of the "Cover Girl Caravan" in its special car en route to the Coast, and the girls' adventures in their Beverly Hills house under "Mother" Colby's chaperonage (with eight "wolves" howling at the door one night and Mickey Rooney turning handsprings on the lawn another),made endless gossip-column copy. Colby followed up with personal calls on editors in 40 major cities. When Cover Girl finally appeared, it may not have been the best picture ever made, but it was certainly one of the best publicized. And Colby's reputation was made...
Born 25 years ago in Omaha, the daughter of a Japanese father and an Irish-French mother, she joined Col. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo when she was 14 and toured the world with it. Her roles got better, but her pay ($50 a week) did not-and she finally walked out. Three years ago, as a member of the Sol Hurok troupe, she made another ballet exit-when the Government refused to let her go to California because of her Japanese blood. Sono, who has a brother with the Nisei 442nd combat team...
...most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...
...with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power of the Inquisition by trying to help a soldier whose mother had been arrested as a witch...
...Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires." July. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically : "I thought you were my mother...