Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons. Graduate of Brazil's Escola Nacional de Chymica, he spent four years at Johns Hopkins University as a student of chemical engineering. When stricken last week, popular, modest young Getulio was working in São Paulo's Nitro Chymica chemical-manufacturing company. His father and mother rushed to his bedside. Four days after the diagnosis of infantile paralysis President Vargas left for a conference at Natal. From his good friend Franklin D. Roosevelt he could expect deep sympathy and an inspiring example of recovery from the dread illness which had stricken...
...letter which Maude Adams had written from Missouri to Alexander Woollcott, who had died in the interim (TIME, Feb. 1). Wrote 70-year-old Actress Adams: "The Empire is so dear to me it is difficult to speak of her. It seems almost like praising one's mother." Sixty-nine-year-old Edna Wallace Hopper (looking incredibly young) and 76-year-old Cyril Scott played a scene from The Girl I Left Behind Me in which they had appeared on the Empire's opening night...
...haired, olive-skinned, hazel-eyed Georgia O'Keeffe was born 55 years ago in Sun Prairie, Wis. Her father was an Irish farmer, her mother was Hungarian. After the family moved to Williamsburg, Va., in 1901, Georgia decided to become a painter, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and at Manhattan's Art Students League, where she was known as "Patsy." A winter of painting as her teachers taught it convinced her that she could not paint at all. She worked as a commercial artist in Chicago, a public-school art supervisor in Amarillo, Tex. She calls Texas...
...Aurobindo keeps to his own room, appears only four times a year to his followers. If they wish advice they write him a letter. He may reply, may not. Active management of the ashram falls on a 66-year-old French woman, Madame Alfassa, known to disciples as Mother of the Universe...
...date houses in the town. Her religion, not concerned with mortifying the flesh, permits her to wear American clothes, read magazines and newspapers, puff an after-dinner cigaret. When she first arrived in India she tried to be a vegetarian, but she lost so much weight that the Mother of the Universe put her back on meat. She spends most of her time trying to acquire "a state of serenity." Each evening she goes to the ashram to spend half an hour in meditation to achieve this purpose. She finds it "extremely hard...