Word: mother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this suspenseful Romantic tale, all the supporting roles are expertly handled, especially the curious roster of people living in the Count's ancestral chateau: the Count's morphine-addicted mother (Bette Davis), who keeps to her bed and board (chess); his neurotic wife (Irene Worth); his young daughter (Annabel Bartlett) with a passion for the more morbid aspects of hagiolatry...
Albuquerque's Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, who considers such contests indecent, had warned her (TIME, July 20) that if she took part in the pageant he would deny the sacraments to both her and her mother. In a "statement of conscience," redheaded Sue (37-24-36) described herself as "a symbol of one of the great problems in the country today," insisted that she was "in no way immoral." Then she put on a white bathing suit and posed for photographers...
Threatened with expulsion from Nebraska's Catholic Duchesne College unless she sticks to the no-bathing-suit ban, blonde Mary Jean Belitz, 18, last week gave up her Miss Omaha title. To Mary Jean's mother, the ban was bewildering: her pert (36-24-36) daughter had often appeared in the briefest drum-majorette costumes without causing church disfavor...
...converts to Judaism: "Fifty years ago my Orthodox mother said that Judaism in America is doomed. [Today] we have Elizabeth Taylor. Marilyn Monroe, too. Now all we need is Jayne Mansfield and we'll have it made...
...with the better. I came along and told the same story without inhibition or aggression or a chip on the shoulder. And what happened? Now Lutherans up in the Northwest and Scotch Irish down in Georgia and Italians in Connecticut, they write and tell me, 'This is my mother and this is our house.' The identity is broader than we knew...