Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
...Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate; to her granddaughter, Ellen Pearson Arnold, daughter of Columnist Drew Pearson (who had long been trading blows in print with his ex-mother-in-law), nothing, "inasmuch as I have made a substantial gift to her during my lifetime...
...dropped in at the Vallauris fair last summer, Picasso had lost all interest in the huge paintings he was doing for the Castle Grimaldi museum at Antibes (TIME, Oct. 6). He had settled down at Vallauris with his one-year-old son and the baby's beautiful young mother, Franchise Gillot, and turned out well over a thousand pieces of pottery...
Columnist Drew Pearson last week paid his last respects. Wrote he: "A great lady died the other day-a lady who had caused me much happiness-and much pain. She was my ex-mother-in-law, Eleanor Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints...
...Part I of the longest poem in Jeffers' new book, a boy killed on a Pacific beachhead furiously reassumes his corpse ("I poured my soul with sickening pain into my body again") and returns to a California ranch, there to terrify his patriotic father and adulterous mother, taunting them with blasphemies, cursing the war they sent him to, trying to make horrible love to her, and eventually killing his father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain...