Word: clara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 13-year-old Clara Howard of Washington. D. C. emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire, the flames leaped up, licked her neck and sides. After weeks of painful healing she was left a hopeless cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner...
...mature years as a concert artist were closely bound up with the U. S. From 1900 on he made some 25 U. S. concert tours. Eventually he made the U. S. his permanent home, became a U. S. citizen, married a U. S. woman, Clara Clemens, concert-singing daughter of Author Mark Twain...
This week, Clara Gabrilowitsch, who has already published an undistinguished biography of her illustrious father,* publishes an intimate biography of her famous husband. † Anecdotal, chatty, her book, naturally uncritical, tells more about Mr. & Mrs. Gabrilowitsch than it does about Gabrilowitsch the musician. An ardent Christian Scientist (although her father was noted for his early attacks on Christian Science), Clara Gabrilowitsch interprets the events of her husband's life piously, describes how she several times brought him through crises of body and mind by the power of faith...
...FATHER MARK TWAIN-Clara Clemens Harper...
...HUSBAND GABRILOWITSCH- Clara Clemens-Harper...