Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands of U.S. prisoners, she was known affectionately as "Joey." Before the war, Mrs. Josefina Guerrero had been something of a belle in Manila society. She was young, pretty and vivacious. Her husband was a wealthy medical student at Santo Tomas University. They had a two-year-old daughter...
...born to poverty. Her father was a drifting railroad mechanic; her mother a Polish farmer's daughter. During her childhood in San Bernardino, Calif., her teachers despaired of her. She skipped classes, made eyes at the boys, and got miserable grades. She entered a beauty contest at twelve and won fourth prize, a pair of stockings. At 15 she married a youth named Irving Wheeler. He was not a touchstone to happiness, and she left him in three weeks...
...news picture from Phoenix, Ariz, (see cut) gave many a U.S. citizen a fascinated sense of peeking into a neighbor's photograph album. It showed Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger helping granddaughter Anna Eleanor Boettiger dress for her wedding last week to her college sweetheart, 25-year-old Van H. Seagraves...
...courtyard, surrounded by a marble wall. "The idea," explains Milles, "is to help people overcome the tragedy of death. To show that people have a good time there, too." There will be a young husband, arms out stretched to welcome his wife into the afterworld; a mother greeting a daughter; a French family which had been killed in an auto accident; two sisters who had drowned; an American mother who had died in childbirth, and her baby who had died three weeks later...
...stepped out for the final 36 holes, his tanned face furrowed, a spectator murmured: "He looks like the wrath of God." Knowing how he hates distractions, Cotton's plump, wealthy wife (daughter of an Argentine cattle baron) followed him at a safe distance. He had a four-stroke lead to protect...