Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sister-in-law of Monologist Ruth Draper and mother of Dancer Paul...
...300th meeting of the Security Council last week may well have stirred envy in the narrow breast of "Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough...
...Tinbergen tells how he bothered a herring gull horribly by putting a red wooden egg in her nest. The shape and size of the egg were correct; they tended to release the gull's incubating reaction. But the red color touched off an attack reaction. The poor confused mother fought an exhausting battle between conflicting drives, until the "sitting drive" dominated long enough to allow her to sit down. She could feel the egg's tender shape beneath her, but could not see its color. So she finally settled down, in peace, to incubate...
...Hollywood, where Maggie supported Shirley Temple in Susanna of the Mounties, and "didn't know what I was supposed to do"; and 2) an unsuccessful marriage to a London broker, which, however, produced a daughter called "Toots." At seven, Toots has already appeared in two of her mother's films, gets a sack or two of Maggie's weekly silo of fan mail...
...Search. A mild but touching picture, made in Occupied Germany, about a refugee child and his mother (TIME, March...