Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...birthplace, he got his biggest ovation so far. Owosso, Mich. (pop. 17,000) drew some 25,000 from Shiawassee County down to Main Street for a Saturday night look at the home-town boy who had made good.*Tom Dewey made a brief, extemporaneous address, then retired to his mother's plain, white-painted home for a Sunday of rest and meditation...
Meanwhile, the King's mother, Queen Helen, notified of events by telephone, sped from the royal family's summer home at Sinaia (northwest of Ploesti) to a rendezvous with her son. All through German-held country she clutched a small pistol, determined to shoot the first enemy soldier attempting to halt...
...King motored from Bucharest to the meeting, with his mother. After two hours he turned his car off the road at a gasoline dump. A German motorized column came into sight. The royal party jumped into their car and hurried off just as the Germans opened fire. Bullets flew back & forth for a few minutes before the King raced out of the danger zone...
Both the King and the Queen Mother arrived safely at a secluded villa...
Died. Mrs. Julia Columbo, 78, mother of the late famed Bing Crosby-style crooner, Russ Columbo; in Los Angeles. When Russ Columbo was killed in 1934 by the accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's death secret from her, explained he was having great success in England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed "Russ," inclosing the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor...