Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired of the publicity I didn't ever want to hear about Miss America again." Pressed for her life story, the onetime Miss Ohio said: "I was pretty naive when I was starting. Mercy, I was", after all, only 15. I came home and told my mother, 'I was chosen Miss Columbus, and they said it's because of my figure. Mother, what's a figure?' My mother said, 'It's none of your business...
...CineMerlin Alfred Hitchcock's next motion picture, Actress Jessie Royce Landis plays a mother's role. The son: Cory Grant, who was a ten-month-old baby named Archie Leach when Jessie Royce was born...
...placed fortnight ago by Dr. Henry Beric Wright, 40, medical secretary of the Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control. A surgeon worried about the world's exploding population, Wright learned his concern at the knee of his family-planning mother, Helena Wright, who has urged Britons for years to breed in tight little island size. Wright and his wife recently exported the message to a new birth control clinic in Trinidad, there met the same obstacle that baffles all modern Malthusians-contraceptives are just too much bother for the earth's fastest-breeding peoples. Trinidadians shunned...
...year-old mother of ten found her third husband drinking at a wedding reception, after he had nearly died of hepatic failure. When she fearfully cautioned him to stop, he rebuffed her. Within minutes she lost all sensation throughout the right side of her body...
Married. Amelia Eden, 25, niece of former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden; and Giovanni Borrelli, 30, $35-a-week engine-room mate on a ferryboat that runs between Naples and Ischia; in Ischia, Italy. Said the bride's mother: "I'm not worried about Amelia's happiness. I know she will be happy. What worries me is the plumbing...