Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Clifford Stanton Heinz II, 30, an heir to the Pittsburgh food-packing fortune founded by his grandfather, the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz, and Second Wife Virginia Howard Heinz, thirtyish: their second child, first daughter (he has a son by his first marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Sharon Louise. Weight...
...Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals, and rescued his small daughter from Hayakawa...
Robert Graves writes poems to please himself and other poets; he writes novels only to feed himself and other Graveses (his wife; six children). But because he is one of the most talented and erudite men alive, he is incapable of writing anything that is not of some stature and interest. The Islands of Unwisdom cannot be compared to his best novels (I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Sergeant Lamb's America), but it yields a rich vegetation of outlandish history, and its narrative is skillfully knocked together by a carpenter who knows his nails and timber...
...believe that Missouri's most famous killer stole to give to the poor have been Robin Hoodwinked, Author Horan says, and assembles impressive evidence to prove his point. On the credit side, Dingus gets two gold stars from his biographer: 1) "He appeared to be faithful to his wife and to be fond of his children," and 2) "His personal courage never seems to have been questioned...
...story of "The Father" is quite simple. A husband and wife are fighting a war of brains for the control of their daughter. The battle has been going on for some time and in the 24-hour course of the play the immediate cause of the trouble is what kind of an education the girl shall have. In order to strengthen her side, the mother hints that her husband is not the girl's father. Suspicion foments in his mind, he suffers an attack of insanity, and the wife then wins control over "her" child...