Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes hu . . . humidity?" asks a little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con Edison electric plants humming. This summer New Yorkers broke all records for the amount of electricity used in a single hour. But it's our job to anticipate your needs...
Swedish Dress. Earlier in the week. Rockefellers rained from the sky on Norway. The first to come was Steven's mother, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, who embraced Anne-Marie and described her to reporters as "wonderful." Next came Steven's brothers: Michael, a student at Harvard, and Credit Analyst Rodman and his wife Barbara, who were the only passengers on the chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin...
...Rasmussen family, used to the simple life, was completely storm-tossed by the invasion. Anne-Marie's mother stayed mostly at home and watched her flower beds get trampled. Only the importation by the Rockefellers of four publicity men from the U.S. (one of whom promised to signal from the front door of the church when Anne-Marie said her jo) enabled the newsmen to get their stories while ensuring a little privacy to the participants...
Things got so bad during the season that the Murphys were getting anonymous phone calls from adults. "They wanted to know what we meant by letting our boy pitch like that," says Murph's mother. "They said he was too big to throw at their boys." The son of an oil wholesaler who was once a semi-pro pitcher, Murph himself explains: "I just throw as hard as I can. I figure if I let up, someone might hit it." And being hit is the one thing Murph has not been able to stand since he pitched his first...
...Upbeat. Eva is 18, apple-cheeked. a bandit (tomboy) in her native Polish village ; on her mother's urging, she decides to put the dreaded camps-of-no-return far behind her and to pass as a Christian. By a fast shuffle of the cards of identity, she turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author...