Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he was 15, Stan had a steady girl (now Mrs. Stan Musial) who was the daughter of the neighborhood grocer and had some standing in the community as Donora High's star pitcher. He was also bat boy during the summer for the zinc works' semi-pro team, managed by Joe Barbao. One day, with his club shorthanded and his pitcher wilting before the Monessen (Pa.) sluggers, Joe sent Bat Boy Musial to the mound. The rest of the team thought it was a joke until Musial struck out a batter: he wound up by striking...
Having made her debut in a German film, Rosemary Murphy, 22, daughter of U.S. Ambassador Robert D. Murphy, went to work in a Berlin play...
...escorted to jail by a brass band. Half an hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence in front of his cell door...
...Episcopal minister said, "15 minutes of unabashed tearjerking." Maggie, the daughter of an itinerant beanpicker, was rescued from social ostracism by the beautiful Baptist mission worker, Miss Lacey, whose well-modulated voice converted Maggie from a self-pitying brat to a self-sacrificing angel. As the program ended, the listeners began hurling comment and criticism at the head of Chicago Theological Seminary's Professor Ross Snyder, moderator of the session and co-chairman of Chicago's Religious Radio Workshop...
Keep Me Supplied. Things were hard at first. Lydia made the compound herself in her cellar kitchen; she and her three sons and one daughter bottled it in the evenings while father Isaac read aloud. In her spare time, Lydia wrote advertising circulars which her sons distributed door to door. But sales were precious few until son Dan invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly...