Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue dye to produce unique dappled patterns. Tomikichi Moriyama, 70, and his wife Toyono, 67, hand weavers, were delighted with the honor when it came two years ago. After all, only ten other weavers in Japan-most now too old for work-knew Kurume-gasuri] the Moriyamas' son Torao, like most younger people, preferred more profitable machine weaving...
...February, old and worn from his labors, Tomikichi died, and wid01wed Toyono moved with her son into a little house in Hirokawa. Last weekend Toyono slipped away from a small party her son was giving, politely pulled the paper-screen door of her closet shut, and hanged herself with the blue-and-white sash of her Kurume-gasuri kimono...
...London Sir Winston Churchill, 84, popped up at the christening of his tenth grandchild, cherubic little Rupert Christopher Soames, two months, son of Britain's Secretary of State for War Christopher Soames and Churchill's daughter Mary. "He's beautiful," murmured Sir Winston. Observed proud Papa Soames: "The new baby looks awfully like Sir Winston-but then, so do most babies...
...before a West German Bundeswehr draft board stepped handsome Wolf Rudiger Hess, 21, conscientious objector and son of convicted Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, now whiling away his life in Berlin's dark Spandau Prison. Young Hess explained that he is loath to put in his legal twelve-month stint in West Germany's army. With bitter Teutonic irony, he enlarged upon his refusal to be drafted: "My conscience forbids me to serve those who judged and condemned my father. Moreover, in performing military service, which might be construed as aiding in the preparation for a next...
Since presiding over Britain's royal wedding in 1947, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, 72, Archbishop of Canterbury, has had little practice in tying nuptial knots. So he was understandably rusty last week while presiding at the marriage of his son, TV Producer Humphrey Fisher, 35, to pretty Airline Stewardess Diana Davis, 27. In pronouncing the lines of the Church of England ceremony, he solemnly besought God that "this woman may be lovely" instead of "loving." He hastily corrected himself, at ceremony's end further atoned by stalling the bridal procession with official busses for every single bridesmaid. Protested loving...