Word: clara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clara Bryant Ford, wife of 79-year-old Motorman Henry, reaching 76 (on their 55th wedding anniversary), gave her recipe for happiness: "Lead as natural and as kindly a life...
Bayreuth By-Passed. Though she sings her Brünnhildes and Isoldes like a veteran of Bayreuth, Helen Traubel has been outside the U.S. only twice in her life: on tours to Canada and Cuba. Her father ran a drugstore in St. Louis. Her mother, Clara Stuhr, was famous among the Midwest's German-American singing societies for her soprano. Traubel herself got an early reputation as the best belly-flopper among Forest Park's sledders, a massive destroyer of chocolate ice-cream sodas, and an almost maniacal fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. At 15, with...
...Died. Clara Cook Kellogg, 80, widow of ex-Secretary of State, ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Frank Billings Kellogg; in St. Paul. A popular hostess in Washington and London, she was a tactful, patient woman whose grace often counteracted her husband's impulsive conversation. Kellogg once wrote that Coolidge said he had made him Ambassador as much because of Mrs. Kellogg as Kellogg himself...
...proud Princeton will stage both its Army and Navy games in New York City's huge Yankee Stadium. The Big Nine's Illinois-Ohio State game has been moved from Champaign to Cleveland; Stanford's games with Santa Clara and Washington from Palo Alto to San Francisco. Texas A. & M. will tackle Rice at Houston instead of its own College Station...
They were U.S. citizens who had spent their lives on U.S. soil -farmers who tilled the rich brown loam in the Sama Clara Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were...