Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Peggy, playing in her first tournament after the birth of a daughter last year, got to the quarter finals of the National Singles championships at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa. before bowing out. But Betty was at the top of her driving game, methodically rolled into the finals, disposed of Britain's Mrs. Sheila Speight Mclntosh to win her fourth straight title-the tenth national championship for the House of Howe...
...captivating little lady with a face like a Leonardo drawing, Mrs. Walter B. Cannon is a very extraordinary person whom Harvard could proudly name its matriarch. She has been attached to the community for eighty-two years, as daughter of a Harvard alumnus, Radcliffe undergraduate, wife of a medical school professor, mother of five talented children (three daughters graduated from Radcliffe, one son from Harvard and Medical School), mother-in-law of Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Fairbank, grandmother of two Harvard freshmen, great-grandmother-to-be of a potential Harvard or Radcliffe student...
...Herter married Mary Caroline Pratt, daughter of a staid and wealthy Standard Oil family (they now have three sons and a daughter), and took his bride to Switzerland, where he was on State Department assignment to help draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. After that he went to the Versailles Conference, officially as a secretary but unofficially as hearing aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, who was growing increasingly deaf. In 1921 Herter returned to the U.S. as secretary to Commerce Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover in the Harding Administration...
...tidy was the Maine publishing empire Guy P. Gannett built. They were Guy's five papers,* no mistake; his flinty Republicanism, his bedrock conviction that heavy advertisers deserved to make news, were graven into every issue. Five years ago, when Gannett died and the chain passed to his daughter, a handsome divorcee of 30 and mother of three boys, most old subscribers reckoned that the reign in Maine would never be the same again...
...list of American girls who have spread commotion merely by traveling abroad-from Pocahontas to Henry James's Daisy Miller-must now be added the name of Catherine Fremantle. Strong-souled and sturdily uppered, she is the daughter and soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts...