Word: mother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over again," says Beck of his past, "the only thing different I would do would be to keep much better records." Otherwise Dave Beck, going on 66, stoutly protests that "I haven't done a single, solitary thing wrong." Adds he fervently: "May my dear mother not draw another breath if this...
...mother is going...
Divorced. Whitelaw Reid, 46, onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; by Joan Brandon, 29, whose mother, Dorothy Brandon, was a Washington-bureau staff member of the Herald Tribune; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Josiah's Puritanical training started right at the cradle. His widowed mother, fearful of "hurtful indulgence," would rouse him from slumber and dip him three times in a tub of frigid water. At the tender age of six, he entered Phillips Academy in Andover, probably since his grandfather had founded it. His academic training consisted of memorizing hymns, Greek and Latin grammar, and attending sermons. Although Quincy described the Puritan restrictions as "wearisome and irksome," he learned them well; he remained a teetotaler and habitually rose...
...Within a week after he heard Eliza Morton sing songs of Burns, he became secretly engaged to her--an engagement which lasted over two years. Although he took the usual precautions, such as checking upon her family connections and her property, Quincy apparently over-threw all the precepts his mother had instilled in him for love of Miss Morton. He never revealed his engagement to his mother until a few months before the wedding; the ceremony itself took place in New York, far from his Boston home...