Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high scholastic rating, and because the team was down and we were offered a real challenge." End Marlin and Guard Mike both made the first string last year as sophomores. Lean-bellied and heavy-thighed, they stand 6 ft. 1 in., weigh 220 lbs., and only their mother can tell them apart for sure...
...have one baby, twins or triplets. In the A.M.A. Journal, three Navy doctors said they used the electroencephalograph (brainwave machine), pasted leads to the women's abdomens, got recordings of electrical impulses that indicated the number of fetal hearts. The method, they noted, is far safer (for both mother and children) than X rays. Source of the data: servicemen's wives at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth...
Married. Monte Blue, 72, matinee idol of silent films (So This Is Paris, White Shadows of the South Seas), more recently a bit player in movies and TV; and Portrait Painter Betty Munson Mess, 42, widowed mother of four children; both for the third time; in Los Angeles...
Mary Grayon is almost ideally cast as the nervously talkative mother, whose busy lack of understanding makes home unbearable for the children she loves. Miss Graydon's slim figure is adroitly made pathetic by the dresses Angela Brown has hung on her; and the break in her voice keeps always alive a sense that this woman lies on the edge of desperation. Moreover (much moreover), she is equal as an actress to the demands of the part--which is vastly more than can be said for anyone else I can think of in Cambridge. Her fluttery hand-gestures, her nods...
About Miss Humphrey's Laura, with her amazing vocal resemblance to her mother and her triumphant avoidance of the nullity towards which the part so dangerously tends, I had better not say any more. Her brother Tom is played by Joel Crothers, who lapses at moments into the mere personableness of a movie juvenile lead; for the most part, however, he takes after the rest of his stage family and is admirable...