Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loving Englishman at heart, Mike settled down in Farnham, Surrey, to run a thriving garage with his mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted...
...cold, drizzly English country morning last week, Mike remembered that he had some urgent business appointments 40 miles away in London. Waving goodbye to his mother at the garage, he hopped into his souped-up green Jaguar and whooshed down the highway like a man without a minute to spare...
Playmates, the obvious suspects, were exonerated. Checking the parents, the doctors found that the girls' mother was a nurse in a small hospital 100 miles away. And this hospital had had an epidemic of resistant staph just before the girls got their abscesses. Tricky test-tube work showed that the mother was carrying the same resistant staph in her nasal passages. She was a "healthy carrier." More work showed that 43 of 59 patients and staff members also carried staph, mostly in mild form. The mother is now getting a combination of antibiotics in hopes of making...
Carmian is the writing daughter of an American father and a German mother. She is alone in Paris and so sensitive, so vulnerable that the plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...
Dima is the son of White Russian parents, a suicide father and a mother who has somehow managed to keep a little money. Mamma's apartment is one of those Paris crow's nests where tea, scraps of food and family belongings are hoarded under beds and a running war is maintained with the concierge. Author Marsh, 36, who has some autobiographical credentials for her story, writes with authority about the grubby side of Parisian life, has woven the fly-by-night painters, writers and plain frauds into her story with the sureness of a Parisian landlady counting...