Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening falls, the potato seekers drift back to the Autobahn. Some have full knapsacks; others are emptyhanded. A father and three daughters wave down a passing American car. They are filthy. For two days they have tramped across plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one meal of bread and water since they left Berlin. "We got nothing," said the eldest daughter. "The peasants told us we had nothing they wanted in trade." The youngest girl, twelve years old, falls immediately into a deep sleep, clutching a six-week-old puppy which they got because a farmer...
...Word. The Shakers were founded by Ann Lee, husky daughter of a British blacksmith. As a girl, Ann was troubled by thoughts of sin and salvation. At her father's insistence, she married Abraham Stanley, to whom she bore four children-all of whom soon died. At 23, she joined the revivalist following of two emotional Quakers, James and Jane Wardley. The Wardleys became convinced that Ann was nothing less than the second incarnation of Christ. Later, it was revealed to Ann in a vision that she was Mother Ann-Ann, the Word. She had attained spiritual peace...
...Farmer's Daughter. Loretta Young as a country maid who runs for Congress; with Joseph Gotten and Ethel Barrymore (TIME, April...
Born. To Walter P. Reuther, 39, president of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and May Wolf Reuther, 36: a daughter, their third; in Detroit. Weight...
Last week the Heise boys unveiled a unique project. In Winona, they opened the Heise Clinic. Its staff: Papa Heise & sons. Except for a nurse hired from outside, the clinic was manned entirely by the family. Daughter Dorothy was the receptionist; son-in-law John Curtis, the X-ray and physiotherapy technician. The building (financed by $100,000 the brothers had chipped in) looked like a gleaming vision straight out of Arrowsmith. A two-story limestone affair of 68 rooms done in tile, birchwood and oak, with shiny new medical equipment, the clinic had been personally planned and its construction...