Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supper is the main time for the family. At the table will be Joe's grandmother Carver, who lives in a first-floor room of the big white house and knits delicate white bedspreads for her young relatives. There on a visit may be Joe's married sister, Mrs. Donneita Lampley. At the supper table too will be Joe's mother, pert, determined Thelma Ashley Carver Moore, now 44, who, in addition to her heavy household duties, holds down the job of Jackson County School Supervisor. She still finds time, once a year, to pack her husband...
...Rule of Thumb. Basic to Joe Moore's childhood was the ownership of livestock. Beginning when he was four, Joe and his sister, Donneita, shared ownership of lambs deserted by their mothers, feeding them by bottle until they were old enough to go on grass. Already, Joe's hearty appetite for cold cash was apparent: he even made a tidy profit out of his habit of sucking his thumb. For months, both his mother and grandmother put dimes under his pillow every time he went to sleep without his thumb in his mouth. Finally grandmother Carver said...
Reckless (née Flame) was the beloved possession of a young Korean jockey until the boy's sister lost her leg in a land-mine accident; then he decided to sell the horse to the Marines for $250 in order to buy his sister an artificial leg. On the front lines, Reckless became both a mascot and an efficient carrier of ammunition for a recoilless ("Reckless") rifle platoon, 5th Marines. She learned to relish C-rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently...
...taboos-illegitimacy, Socialism and failure. As hard-living Novelist Jack London, Actor Lloyd Nolan seemed physically too slight for the role but in the essential scenes he created a sense of force and fury that lifted the play over its hurdles. Mercedes McCambridge played London's chillingly correct sister, and Mary Sinclair was excellent in her despairing efforts to be the proper wife for a national hero. The play's simple story line-how a proud man pulls down his world and himself-just missed a Greek starkness. The ending had imagination as the camera panned down...
Inside Job. In Richland Center, Wis., haled into court for stealing his brother-in-law's car, Melvin Vest, 21, got a one-to-five-year sentence, explained to the judge: "I thought my sister deserved to have a new car, and I figured if I stole the old one, they could buy a new one with the insurance money." One-Way Traffic. In Nanaimo, B.C., after he was fined $10 for drunkenness when police found him carrying on a one-sided conversation with a shapely store-window mannequin, Logger Lome Curtis explained that he was not trying...