Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most surprised to see the claim in your obituary of my mother, Dr. Marie Stopes, that she was a Roman Catholic at the time of her first marriage. This is quite untrue, for she of course was never a Roman Catholic at any time in her life...
...cloistered nuns from the Convent of the Little Sisters of the Friendless are the only witnesses who can back up the murder suspect's alibi. But they cannot leave their convent to come to court; their vows forbid it. What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French. And unless someone can get the nuns out of the cloister, the monosyllabic police lieutenant is prepared to see the suspect strapped into the electric chair. Enter Private Detective Peter Gunn...
Gunn (Craig Stevens) has all the normal qualifications: 1) a bachelor apartment that would do for "Baby" Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A drama that painfully parallels Chicago's recent parochial school tragedy. An accidental fire that burns down part of a Catholic home for small girls provides a coldhearted mother superior (Helen Hayes) with a startling excuse to warm up to the kid who caused the trouble...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). "Mother Goose" will give Shirley's own children a chance to edge Mamma offstage. Color...