Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the well-to-do residents of Bucharest's smart Parcu Filipescu section had something to talk about. A woman as Foreign Minister of Rumania, the first to serve in such a post anywhere! And such a woman! Although Ana Pauker, mother of three and self-made widow, lived among them in the Parcu district, kept a lakeside villa at Snagov, and rode in the swankest limousines (bullet-proofed), she had but lately "arrived," in a way most ominous for her neighbors...
...Manhattan, British Stage & Screen Star Wendy Miller made news that sounded a little more like the neighbors. Shipped to her from England were son Anthony, 5, and daughter Ann, 8; their arrival fulfilled one of the terms of mother's contract in Broadway's The Heiress. The term: the children would be brought over if the show was a success...
...baby was indeed a drug addict, born to a drug-addicted mother. After birth it was suffering the usual symptoms of an addict deprived of morphine...
...vilest sort!" Iris, who is 20, and chairman of the campus social-relations committee, said she would take her case to court. She added: "I'm not afraid of sticking my neck out and getting my name smeared all over. I feel strongly." In Manhattan, Iris' mother gave her worried approval: "I know she has done right. . . . But I wish she'd let someone else tilt lances at windmills...
Except for one poem, the verse is neither excellent nor bad, though below that of recent issues. The exception, "Song of a Young Girl," by Alan H. Friedman, is a quite detestable piece of banality. between lines like "I want to die" and "Mother will want carrots" repeated each three or four times with slight variations, comes "slashed wrists under the bedcovers." This bit of unexplained neuroticism is not worthy of the generally mature Advocate, and can hardly be considered seriously as a poem...