Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week Margaret Cut-liffe, 18, daughter of a sergeant in Britain's 29th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, went shopping with her mother and a friend for her first evening dress-to be worn at her first dance. As the three women emerged from a shop on Famagusta's Hermes Street, the dress triumphantly in hand, Margaret screamed. Two black-trousered youths bore down on them, poured a packet of bullets into the backs of Margaret's mother and her companion. Mrs. Cutliffe, mother of five (the youngest 15 months), slumped to the sidewalk dead...
...sure as apple pie that other members of the family would gather at the festive board. Already lined up this season: one homey fracas in which mom knows best, another in which grandpa takes over the Socratic chores. ¶Donna Reed (ABC, Wed., 9-9:30 p.m.), mother of two, wife of a doctor, is an inoffensive archetype of the mythical figure whose chuckleheadedness is just a cheery wrapper around an infallible intuitive wisdom. In time for the final embrace, she usually squashes at least half a dozen domestic crises (mostly of her own making) and straightens out whatever...
...traced back to Winters' paternal grandfather, a delicately balanced bank president given to walking the streets of Dayton, flapping his arms at his pal Orville Wright and screeching: "How's the airplane, Orville?" Johnny's wealthy parents were divorced when he was seven, and his mother moved him to Springfield, Ohio, where he slept in a "brass-rail bed with a dead mouse in the corner." After a World War II tour with the Marines and a nodding acquaintance with college, Johnny entered a Dayton amateur show-and won. Jack Paar gave him his big chance...
...fruit growing out of man like the fruit out of a plant like the child out of the mother . . . reason has cut man off from nature...
Married. Alice Hay Wadsworth, 78, widow of New York Republican Senator (1915-27) and Representative (1933-51) James W. Wadsworth, daughter of John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's biographer and Secretary of State for both William Mc-Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt, mother of Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations James J. Wadsworth; and Jackson H. Boyd, 68, retired businessman; in Geneseo, N.Y. Among Mrs. Wadsworth's attendants: her daughter Evelyn, wife of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington...