Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly did him in. They invested in a nightclub, and he gave her a '76 Pacer, "TV and sound" equipment, "a wardrobe worth thousands," a $7,500 bond and a $9,000 bank account. He also bought her brother a new truck and her mother a color-television...
...prison official. "He's very nervous -more nervous about someone trying to stop the execution than the date coming closer." For a time, a family reunion with his two brothers and an aunt and uncle put Gilmore in a better mood, though he was disappointed that his mother, Bessie Gilmore, was ill and could not make the trip. "The family should be together on an occasion like this," said his uncle, Vern Damico...
...creator of the tollhouse chocolate-chip cookie; of cancer; in Plymouth, Mass. In 1930 Wakefield and her husband opened an inn in an old tollhouse on the Boston-to-New Bedford road. One day she decided to add chocolate bits cut from a semisweet bar to liven up her mother's cookie recipe. The creation was an instant success. During World War II, millions of tollhouse cookies were shipped to servicemen overseas...
...fate was decided before I came to this globe," says Soviet Violinist Gidon Kremer. So it seems. His mother and father were both professional violinists. Gidon's maternal grandfather handed down his fiddle when the boy was still in his teens; it just happened to be an 18th century Guadagnini. At the Moscow State Conservatory, Kremer caught the eye and ear of the late David Oistrakh and worked with him for eight years. In 1970 at the age of 23, Kremer won Moscow's esteemed Tchaikovsky Competition. Last week he arrived in the U.S. for the first time...
Rosemary Rogers, a fortyish typist and mother of four from Fairfield, Calif., shipped Editor Coffey the manuscript of a 636-page romantic extravaganza called Sweet Savage Love. The first novel she had ever submitted for publication, it became the first of four swashbuckling herstoricals that have moved more than 10 million copies off the racks, made Rogers one of the world's bestselling authors, with a million-dollar annual income, and opened to hordes of escapists some wild new terrain...