Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native Italy, Rospigliosi is the kind of correspondent TIME likes to have to round out any well-organized news bureau. His father was Italian, his mother American; he was educated in Florence and was graduated from Cambridge University in 1929. He speaks Italian, German, French and English fluently, and knows Italy like the back of his hand. He was working for International News Service in Rome when America went to war, and was promptly arrested by the police and interned as an "antinational" at Perugia. Later, he escaped, spent a winter in the hills outside Rome, made it through...
Liberal Education. Dean Gooderham Acheson, now 55, is a tall, tweedy mixture of dignity and good humor, and by no means as stuffy as his pukka sahib mustache makes him look. His British-born father, Edward Campion Acheson, was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, his mother was a daughter of the wealthy Gooderham whiskey distilling family in Canada. Young Dean went to Groton, on to Yale for his A.B., then to Harvard for his law degree. He got into government as a protege of Harvard's Felix Frankfurter and a secretary to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis...
...went to Roanoke, Va., married a redheaded, 19-year-old white girl named Florence Hammond, whom he had met while she was selling popcorn at a local movie house. Florence's family were semiliterate Virginia dirt farmers. At first they welcomed Clark. But after a while his mother-in-law began to resent him-she still wanted Florence tied to her apron strings...
...young couple went off to Baltimore, got jobs and settled down. But the bride's mother began badgering the girl over the telephone. Finally she told her daughter a baleful tale: she had dreamed that Hamilton was a Negro and then she had gone to Russellville, Ala., found the boy's mother and verified her suspicions...
Extenuation. In Jonkb'ping, Sweden, Ole Jonson, convicted of stealing and embezzlement, was only put on probation when he told the court that he did it to get money so he could move away from his mother...