Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smartly dressed Elizabeth Duncan, separated from her husband when Frank was a child, held her son's hand in court, applauded when he won a case, tongue-lashed the district attorney when he lost. So tight was the noose that once, when Frank threatened to leave home, his mother took a heavy dose of sleeping pills and was carried off to Santa Barbara's Cottage Hospital...
Love & Leave. There, ironically, romance entered Frank's life 13 months ago. Mother Duncan's nurse was slight, auburn-haired Olga Kupczyk, 30, recently of Vancouver, Canada. After Mother Duncan was sent home, Frank and Olga dated. In May Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home...
Nineteen hundred years after Christ was crucified outside Jerusalem, a Mexican child whose father was a man named José and whose mother was called Maria de Jesús was born in a mulecart at Tepoztlán, an Indian village between the capital and Cuernavaca. His mother had him christened Manuel...
...conquistadors -are remembered by the defeated. Ancient drums as well as bells sound from the church tops. In such a world. Manuel the Mexican came naturally by his belief that Tepozteco, lord of his race, was also Christ, and that Tonantzin, the Aztec Virgin, was also Christ's mother...
...life and loves of Geoffrey Bliss, a brittle-witted English playwright and "four-letter person"; 2) the struggle of adulterous peeress v. straightforward secretary to find bliss with Bliss; 3) the tea-and-sympathy schooling by the secretary of Geoffrey's sexually insecure son Ludovic, whose mother is the peeress...