Word: mother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other show, the script might have spelled disaster. There was the ambitious momma, dead set on getting daughter into show business-but with enough maternal instinct left over to mother a stray coyote, a spinster tourist and a Mexican wetback with a guitar. There was also the expected, easygoing dad, a navy officer son-in-law sore at momma's machinations, and a happy ending. But somehow, on the U.S. Steel Hour (CBS) last week, the thin substance of The Pink Burro stiffened into a commendable show...
...Madrigal arrives she completely inverts all of Pinkbell's commands and shows signs of being able to bring life out of the almost sterile soil. Similarly, Miss Madrigal changes the way in which Laurel is being brought up. Laurel ran away to her grandmother on the night before her mother remarried. However, Miss Madrigal sees in the mother the one chance for Laurel to develop in an atmosphere of life, so she convinces her to rejoin her mother. And to unify the two situations, when Laurel leaves with her mother, Mr. Pinkbell dies...
...French viewers were outraged by a décolletage-studded dramatization of the life of Quebec's Mother Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, aired on the day she was beatified in Rome; Members of Parliament clamored for the jobs of the producers...
...statewide beauty contest, which entitled her to compete for the Miss Universe title this week at the international beauty contest in Long Beach, Calif., and her archbishop had said that if she did, he would deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both her and her mother (her father is not Catholic) for "an indefinite period of time." Philadelphia-born Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, 67, like many another prelate, feels that females should be well covered in public. At his insistence, the beauty contest won by Sue Ingersoll held its bathing-suit judging in private, with only members...
...archbishop was adamant. Sue's mother said she was against Sue's going to Long Beach. Sue said she would go anyway. "If I go against mother's wishes, it doesn't seem a bit fair that she should be denied the sacraments, too," she said. "I have all the respect in the world for the archbishop and am sure he feels he's doing the right thing. But after all, it's 1959, and it's not going to be indecent or shady, and he should realize that...