Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Dewey carefully timed his arrival for the day after most other delegates had settled down. Coming across the straight, after a visit with his mother at Owosso, Mich., he hopped off the boat, was whisked away in a four-seated carriage. Soon he was holding a press conference for the 100 newsmen lounging in big wicker chairs at G.O.P. headquarters in the elegant, white-colonnaded Grand Hotel ("longest porch in the world...
...Petacci family prospered, moved to a palace on Monte Mario. Claretta's physician brother became well-to-do. Claretta's mother became unofficial autocrat of Italian movies. Her sister Maria pleased the Duce, too. She became a radio and film star...
...Alley master gave this question a masterly and very personal answer. Broadway and Hollywood's Harry Ruby, hysterical baseball fan and composer of dozens of song hits from Oh, What a Pal Was Mary to Three Little Words, published a collection of his avocational efforts called Songs My Mother Never Sang (Random House, $2.50). This tunesmith's holiday provides musical America with a richly burlesque little sheaf of songs, including numbers entitled Indelible You and Get Off the Pot, and a fine satire on Gilbert & Sullivan, complete with antiphonal chorus effects, entitled He's Not an Aristocrat...
...story is that of Francie Nolan from her twelfth to her seventeenth year in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before and during World War I. The book has most of the time-tested character types and situations in fiction: Katie, the hardworking, self-sacrificing mother; Johnny, the lovably alcoholic, singing-waiter father; Francie, the good, book-loving slum child who yearns to be a writer; Neeley, her little brother; and an assortment of incredible relatives, including a peasant grandmother who speaks with the wisdom of Confucius and the force of the King James Version...
...Dying Mother Advocate is really only going into suspended animation. Its last issue for the duration comes out this summer, probably within a fortnight. That other so-called publication, the Lampoon, is still going along at its usual pace and has three issues a term of the publication schedule...