Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Determined, like her cousin Queen Elizabeth to bind the British commonwealth by charm, blue-eyed Princess Alexandra, 22, made her first official visit without her mother, the Duchess of Kent, to an overseas dominion-Australia. After spending three weeks trudging up and down the continent, she demonstrated her famed light touch by taking off her shoes to walk barefoot across the sands of Lindeman Island, off Australia's east coast...
...went to court in Alexandria. Va., walked out a U.S. citizen. Daughter of a Swedish minister, she arrived in the U.S. in 1951, went to work as a governess in the home of a Swedish U.N. delegate, married Marine Lieut, (now Captain; Roger Carl Hagerty in 1955, is the mother of Jim Hagerty's two grandchildren...
Always a Formula. When Bryant, as his family called him, was growing up in Dorchester, on the southern edge of Boston, his hobby was chemically analyzing his mother's laundry soap. The stench forced his photoengraver father to build him a lean-to lab outside the house. But the boy chemist's talents got him into famed Roxbury Latin School (he was the most precocious science student in 20 years) and through Harvard in three years. He married the daughter of Harvard's top chemist; in 1931 Professor Conant himself took over the department. "Bryant," said...
Toscanini's Choice. Born in the French Pyrenees. Salzedo started out to be a pianist. His mother was a pianist at the Spanish summer court, and she sat her son down at the keyboard so early that he gave recitals at five, was taken out of school when he was six to concentrate on music. When the family moved to Paris, Carlos entered the conservatory and started studying the harp as a sideline. On his graduation, he was the only student in the school's history to win first prize in both piano and harp...
...wild-horse wrangler on the side. He and some mercenary Indians trap mustangs and sell them for chicken feed. Business looks good when Blanding traps thousands of mustangs in a natural amphitheater; but he reckons without Stanley and Lark, who might have been the founding father and mother of the Walla Walla S.P.C.A...