Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Barbara Ann Edwards was only 18, a tiny girl with a winning smile-especially when she looked at U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Ules Lee Barnwell Jr., 22, of Greenville, S.C. But in the year that they knew each other, neither Barbara Ann nor Lee Barnwell had much to smile about...
They had met and fallen in love in March 1958 at an academy dance, which Barbara Ann attended on crutches because of a foot broken in a skiing accident. By last December they were engaged, looking forward happily and hopefully to Lee Barnwell's graduation, when they could be married. Then their troubles began. Barbara Ann's foot did not heal properly, and she entered a Denver hospital for surgery. When she awoke from anesthesia after the operation, Air Cadet Barnwell was at her bedside. He had borrowed a car and driven from Colorado Springs to be with...
When she learned that Jordan's King Hussein was planning to visit the Air Force Academy, Barbara Ann sent him a telegram, begging him to grant Barnwell amnesty during his stay-a right traditionally given visiting heads of state by U.S. military academies.* But a snowstorm forced Hussein to cancel his tour of the academy; he wired his regrets and best wishes for a happy marriage...
...skinny, 15-year-old girl is well schooled in human relations (she has been a Harlem prostitute for a year) and chemistry (drinking water, she knows, helps the smoker extract that last bit of nourishment from a reefer). But Lu Ann is a little weak in geography. "Now Man," she says, "you aint gassin me you really got an ocean you can get to on the subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island...