Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no Ayers in the firm today because none of F. W. Ayer's brothers lived to manhood and the founder himself produced no sons. Wil Wilfred Fry inherited the control of the business because his wife was F. W. Ayer's only surviving child, but not until he had amply proved his ability to manage the agency wisely and well. In June 1936, Wayland Ayer Fry, fresh from Colage University, went to work for N. W. Ayer & Son to learn the business from the bottom rung, as his father had done before...
...Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized. Henceforth child & orchid will bear the same name: Kate Roosevelt...
...After the child's maternal grandmother, Mrs. Harvey Cushing...
Born. To Marshall Field III, 43, twice-divorced Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Mrs. Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field: a daughter, their first child (his fourth, her third); in Manhattan...
ROSE DEEPROSE-Sheila Kaye-Smith- Harper ($2.50). The fateful story of a healthy English farm girl who at 26 has unwittingly caused the death of her mother, her dearest friend, her idiot child, the suicide of her husband...