Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Smith Thach was born in Pine Bluff, Ark. in 1905, the third of four children. His mother was a schoolteacher and a beauty in her day ("Men still whistle at her," he says fondly, "and so help me, doctors don't believe that she's 80"); his father was an insurance executive and an enthusiastic outdoorsman. The family moved to a big ten-room house in Fordyce, 37 miles away, when John was four...
...further by jealousy, Donato visualizes imagined rivals. "When I had my eyes, I could close them and find peace. Now I imagine things. I see things." His love turns into hate, first suicidal, then homicidal. In the final scene, after Maria's husband has returned, Donato's mother motions Maria out of harm's way, aims the pistol in Donato's hand at a blank wall and sings: "Yes. my son, kill her!" Donato fires. Horrified but unharmed, Maria remains silent. As Donato and his mother leave to seek sanctuary across the frontier, the mother sings...
...Catholics throughout the country-outside New York, especially in Connecticut and Massachusetts, where Catholic voters have succeeded in making the dissemination of birth control information illegal. In Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital, Dr. Louis Hellman had been about to fit a contraceptive device to a diabetic woman, mother of three, whose life, in his opinion, would be endangered by another pregnancy. He was stopped from doing so by his supervisor, Dr. Harvey Gollance, acting on the orders of Dr. Morris A. Jacobs (Jewish), commissioner of hospitals. New York State law specifically authorizes physicians to prescribe birth control devices...
Died. Gladys Smith Presley, 42, mother of Crooner Elvis Presley; of a heart attack; in Memphis...
...farm boy happens upon them, leads them back to the burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind...