Word: nora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Miss Finn was turning up fresh leads of her own in New York City. She learned that Dennis' only sister, Nora, now married to a musician, was living in New York. But she did not know her married name. With the help of a single address at which Nora had once lived in Queens, a reverse telephone directory (which lists telephone numbers by addresses), and some luck, she got Nora on the phone. An hour later they were talking together...
...Although Nora, who is strongly antiCommunist, would say little about her brother, she provided some important background on their family. She said that after not seeing him for 18 years she found out his identity and position in the U.S. Communist Party when an aunt told her to get a copy of TIME'S April 7, 1947 issue. There she read about her brother's appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his refusal to give his right name...
After a classical Swan Lake and the sprightly Fancy Free, they got the main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
After Frankie's mother died in 1916, father was married to Amelia Kien. Times were better. The family moved into a better house and Frankie led a pleasant life. His stepmother and sister Nora were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High...
Love in Woodland. In South Pasadena, Calif., where he had taken his stepmother and Nora, Frankie Waldron fingered the mementos and closed that preliminary chapter in the career of a revolutionary. He was absorbed in Communist reading matter, furiously wrote Communist tracts. He worked only when his stepmother and Nora were down to the last dime. Salesmen's jobs were "bourgeois," he orated. His stepmother pleaded with him to make something of himself. He told a friend: "Humanity's welfare is far more vital than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel...