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...Morning and night, that was all they talked about in the little frame house in the California poor-town where Norma Jeane Baker lived in the early years of the Depression. "You're wicked, Norma Jeane," the old woman used to shrill at the little girl. "You better be careful, or you know where you'll go." Norma Jeane was careful, especially not to talk back. If she did, she got whaled with a razor strop and told that a homeless girl should be more grateful to folks who had put a roof above her head. One night...
Hell's Fire. Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Baker on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital, was an illegitimate child. Her mother, Gladys Monroe Baker, was a pretty redhead in her middle 20s who had two young children. Norma Jeane's father was a man with a fair job in the movie business. One day while Gladys was carrying Norma Jeane she came home from her job as a film cutter to find, instead of her husband and children, a note: "I have taken the children, and you will never see them again...
...When Norma Jeane was twelve days old, she was put to board (for $25 a month) with a family of religious zealots who lived in a sort of "semirural semi-slum" on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She was a normal baby, bright and happy, but when she was about two years old she suffered a severe shock, which she insists she can remember. A demented neighbor made a deliberate attempt to smother her with a pillow, and almost succeeded before she was dragged away...
...spoke. We were all right together." Both Manager Bing and Soprano Callas steadfastly refused to disclose her salary, but educated guesses put it at $2,000 per performance. Manager Bing announced that Callas would open the Met's 1956 season in her famed role, Norma, and chivalrously kissed her hand in her Chicago dressing room for the benefit of photographers. As to salary, he only remarked: "Our singers work for art's sake-and maybe a few flowers. Perhaps she will have a few more flowers...
Whence this caution, moderation and restraint? Thurgood's mother, Norma Arica, has been for 28 years a Baltimore schoolteacher and numbers six other schoolteachers among her own and her husbands close relatives. As a teacher, she was among the aristocrats of Negro Baltimore, and her feeling about white-Negro relationships is balanced and moderated by her sense of service and leadership among her own people...