Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan with Vice President Nixon ("Nixonism has replaced McCarthyism as the greatest threat to the prestige of our nation today"). Then Governor Harriman gave her a reason-by implying, in a radio broadcast, that Rockefeller was pro-Arab and anti-Israel. En route to Baltimore to visit the ailing mother of her fourth husband, Philanthropist Rudolf G. Sonneborn (and co-chairman of Democrats for Rockefeller), Dolly brooded and made up her mind...
...blood group (A, B, AB and O) tests cannot prove paternity, nor can they disprove it in every case, said Pathologist Barnes. If the tests of mother's and baby's blood indicate that the father's must be type A, the father could still be any man with type A. But that decisively acquits the 60% of men who have B, AB, or O blood.* Besides the ABO grouping of red cells, blood varies according to whether it contains a factor M (present in 30% of the population), N (in 20%), or both...
...Birdwell sold gullible movie columnists the phony yarn that Greta Garbo had expressed an interest in the movie version of Lolita. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is Birdwell's client, is supposed to have ruled Garbo out of Lolita but offered her the part of Marlon Brando's mother (there is no such part) in Brando's new picture, One-Eyed Jacks. Garbo, so the Bird's story goes, answered: "Who is Marlon Brando...
Russell Juarez Birdwell, a slimmed-down, mustachioed version of the late Bob Benchley, has a secretary in constant attendance to record his every word, suggests that his glibness is an inheritance from his father, a Texas revivalist preacher. From his mother, says the Bird, he got an appetite for cash. "She always insisted that we work and save. When I was small, I made money by trapping and skinning skunks.'' Young Birdwell soon learned that there are as many ways to make pocket money as there are to skin polecats. In high school and the University of Texas...
Smith is equally terse in social conversation. A visitor who recently had lunch with him asked what kind of work his father had done. Answered Smith: "As little as possible." Asked what sort of person his mother was, he replied: "Well, I liked...