Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mule shoe that Father Truman nailed over the door the day Harry was born is still there. Earp explained: "I cut $5,000 off the price, if the state would allow the placement of a bronze plaque in the living room as a memorial to my mother and father...
...exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf: "Out of the 200 D.P. camps personally visited...we found only one D.P. in jail...He had slapped his mother...
...thing in the world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown and his Annapolis girl friend, Sylvia Hicks Johnson (see cut), an undertaker...
...King Is Useless." A complicating factor is Leopold's Bavarian-born, 72-year-old mother, Elisabeth, widow of the revered Albert and heroine of World War I. She has a habit of popping up in Brussels to dedicate Communist art exhibits, and was recently listed as one of the sponsors of the Communist "peace" rally in Paris...
Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien, 12, who managed last February to troupe gamely through a few forced smiles when mother Gladys married Bandleader Don Sylvio, now graciously ceded center stage to mother. "It was all wrong from the beginning," declared Gladys, announcing plans for annulment. She was "angry and disturbed" over stories that Margaret had talked her into anything. Said Don: "Some people have an aversion to child actresses, but I haven't. Nor do I have a personal aversion to Margaret, except when she interferes with my marriage . . . I'm the middleman all the way through...