Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost one of his three sons (Peter, 26) at El Alamein last November, was British Army Lieut. Richard Wood, 22. He quietly recounted how the bomb that took both his legs failed to explode, left him his life. For nine years the Golden Rule Foundation, whose funds go to "mothers . . . orphans . . . innocent victims of war" and whose donation blanks are headed "In Honor of My Mother," has winnowed an assortment of honorary Mothers (TIME, May 3). Last week its aplomb was jiggled by Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 72, widow of a Morgan partner, and mother of Colonel (former Assistant Secretary...
Leatrice Joy Gilbert, 18-year-old daughter of John ("Great Lover") Gilbert, leafed through her first movie script with her mother, onetime Cinemactress Leatrice Joy. Tall, brunette Leatrice (Mrs. Francis Carney since her freshman year at Stanford) said she would go on with her poetry: "It'll give me something to fall back on if acting peters...
Divorced. Pare Lorentz, 37, famed producer of documentary films (The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains); by Sally Bates Lorentz, 30, onetime Broadway actress and mother of his two children; after eleven years of marriage; in Reno...
THOMAS WOLFE'S LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER-Scribner...
...father of the late novelist Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) was a stonecutter of great rhetorical influence on his son. Echoes of his surging speech resound through Wolfe's novels. But the novelist's mother, a sinewy woman still living at the age of 83 in Asheville, N.C., was probably an even greater influence. She is a positive personality. "You told me," her son once wrote to Julia Elizabeth Wolfe, "that three great Americans had their birthday in February, and when I looked puzzled you said that you were the third." Readers...