Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five months Frank Duncan spent evenings with Olga, nights at home. Sometimes mother Duncan, 54, would harass Olga by telephone at the hospital; sometimes she would beat on the apartment door and scream threats. Twice Olga changed apartments to escape her mother-in-law; each time Mother Duncan trailed Frank to his rendezvous. And one day last August mother Duncan hired an ex-convict to act as her son, posed herself as Olga, got a Ventura County superior court judge to annul her son's marriage...
...turned up the phony annulment and, with help from the FBI, followed a trail that led to two characters of Santa Barbara's seamy Haley Street area: blade-thin Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, a 22-year-old convict (dope and street fighting). Both finally confessed that mother Duncan had hired them to kill Olga for $6,000. They led the cops to a shallow grave in a Ventura County ditch. There indeed lay the body of Frank Duncan's bride, the victim of beating and strangulation...
...Mother Duncan, already in jail for the fraudulent annulment, was led from her cell and charged-along with Baldonado and Moya-with murder. Angrily, she denied all, called the whole thing a frame-up to hurt her Frank. Frank himself hid under an assumed name in a Hollywood apartment until the cops tracked him down. Then he scarcely grieved over his dead wife and unborn child. But he was shocked and shaken by his mother's plight. Said he: "I could never recall mother doing anything cruel. She would have to be insane to be linked into...
...young man of 21, Red China's Fu Tsun was a good enough pianist to win third prize in Warsaw's 1955 International Chopin Piano Competition. Belgium's Queen Mother Elisabeth invited him to play in her country. Recognizing a valuable cultural export, Red China granted Fu Tsun permission to study in Poland and to give 200 concerts in the satellite countries of Eastern Europe...
...Hollywood premiere, Director Vincente Minnelli laid a proud parental hand on the young shoulders of daughter Liza, 12, strikingly close to being a doe-eyed, wonder-struck replica of her mother, Songstress Judy Garland Luft...