Word: cothran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warm Springs on a gloomy, wet Sunday the President ate turkey, shook hands with discombobolated Helen Cothran, 4 (who shifted her sticky candy to her left hand just in time), with Wade Cothran, 3 (who had cake in both hands, put most of it in his mouth and said "Glmph!" to the President), and with 90 other polio patients. In a gay little speech he said deliberately: "I hope to be down here in March, without any question, if the world survives." (In April 1939, he had said deliberately: "I'll be back in the fall...
That was as far as California got. South Carolina's bespectacled Jane Cothran, playing in her sixth National, put out Mrs. James Ferrie of Pasadena, State titleholder. Champion Betty Jameson blasted the hopes of young Clara Callender...
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