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...screen. The reason, according to Hollywood observers: to help producers strengthen their movies for the competition with TV. Other recent examples: A Place in the Sun, in which a character tries to get an abortion; People Will Talk, whose broad-minded hero marries a girl pregnant, out of wedlock, by another man; The Prowler, which turns on a wedding-night discovery that the bride is an expectant mother...
...land ahead. He was Pfc. William Thompson of M Company. His buddies in the 25th's all-Negro 24th Regiment knew him as a professional type-always quiet, never talkative about his past. There wasn't much Private Thompson wanted to tell. Born out of wedlock, he had been brought up by his grandmother in New York City tenements, had finally run away and been taken into a shelter for waifs. In 1945, at the age of 18, Willie enlisted in the Army, determined to make something of himself...
...born out of wedlock, but that had nothing to do with all this. To people like mine, a thing like that just didn't mean much...
Broadway Star Ethel (The Member of the Wedding) Waters recalled, for the Ladies Home Journal, some of her own life story which in the Negro slums of Chester, Pa.: "I never was a child. . . I was born out of wedlock. . . By the time I was seven, I knew all there was to know about sex and could outcurse any steveore. . .I knew that I was a bastard and what that meant. I've never in my whole life minded being a bastard. I've always found it can work both ways. If I wanted pity...
...singer's wife, in her own day a popular dancer. The only legitimate fruit of the muses' union is daughter Celia, who is as sedate and unromantic as a registered ccw-the invariable fate, in such fiction, of those unfortunate enough to have been born in wedlock. Maria has become a popular actress; Niall, a composer of popular song hits; Celia, a self-sacrificing homebody. But all three have reached John Marquand's "point of no return" with the conviction that they have frittered away their talents through vanity and laziness...