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Word: dora (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Horace Dodge Jr., 53, motor millionaire, and his fifth wife, Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 30, blonde ex-showgirl: their first child (his fifth), a son; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: John Francis. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...community had never seen a live actor. What was the theater? Did you eat it with a fork or a spoon? Did you sprinkle sugar or salt over it? Soon they found out. The wandering players had a wide repertory, all the way from Isabelle, Tear My Skirt to Dora, or the Rich Beggar, by Shakespeare, Revised and Improved by Albert Shchupak, Producer and Director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost World | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...largest endowment gift was $62,000 from the estate of Dora L. Collison for research in cerebral thrombosis anemia, and epilepsy $150,000 represented the annual Carnegie gift for the maintenance of the Russian Research Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gets $1,762,000 in Summer Gifts | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Slender, shy Sheila Dora Carstens was born to white parents in color-conscious Cape Town, attended white schools. When she was 17, Sheila's father died. For a while she lived with a colored woman (meaning, in South Africa, of mixed blood) who took care of her, and in 1945 she married a colored man. Sheila's family turned their backs on her. Last year, after her husband died she met Ronald Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But Sheila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Over the Line | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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