Word: son
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wiley Rutledge, Kentucky-born, son of a Baptist preacher, large, dignified and pedagogical, onetime dean of Washington University's and Iowa State University's law schools, a liberal in the tradition of the Midwest...
...York Herald Tribune story saying that James V. Hunt, a wartime Lieutenant Columbia, had received $1000 as down payment for work he said he would do to get a client a government contract means that Hunt will be the able to see his son graduates from Harvard tomorrow...
...usual, the circuit will thrive on revivals: The Heiress (a good bet for one of the summer's most frequently offered shows), Edward, My Son, Light Up the Sky, The Winslow Boy. The summer theaters will also get opera: Broadway's successful The Telephone and The Medium, offered by a company starring Marie Powers. Other likely favorites: Blithe Spirit, John Loves Mary, 0 Mistress Mine...
When Bonifacio Yturbide was three, a severe illness left him permanently blind. But Bonifacio, the son of Basque immigrant parents, had a good mind and a strong will. As he grew up, he found that insight could be at least a partial substitute for sight. "One thing that some blind persons ... do is to withdraw within themselves. I don't agree with this," he decided. Instead, he dug in hard at school work and activities; in his senior year at Reno (Nev.) high school he made a straight-A record and was elected president of his class...
Young Pierre Couturier, son of the miller of Montbrison in the Loire valley, hoped to be a great painter some day. But after World War I, in which he was wounded, he found a new enthusiasm growing within him; he began to spend more & more time wandering through Paris churches and reading the religious works of Léon Bloy and Paul Claudel. At last he made his decision. In 1925, at the age of 27, Pierre Couturier put away his brushes and became a Dominican monk...