Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foster Homestead...
...issue of TIME, under the title "Republicans" on p. 16, your reporter states that when Governor Landon visited Greenfield Village with Henry Ford, "they drove past a little white house with green shutters in which once lived Stephen Foster, composer of Oh! Susanna...
This house, of course, was never the home of Stephen C. Foster-in fact, no member of the Foster family ever lived a day under its roof. My father was Morrison Foster, Stephen Foster's brother, and we have ample records, contemporary and documentary, showing that the '"White Cottage" where Stephen Foster and my father both were born was located on the exact spot where a brick building called the Stephen C. Foster Memorial Home, at No. 3600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, now stands. The actual little white frame cottage where my father and his brother Stephen were born...
Music's great human-interest story ten years ago was that of Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly forgotten by most Manhattan music writers. She married German Basso Michael Bohnen, soon divorced him for wealthy Robert L. Hague, oil and shipping tycoon...
...could find in Birmingham or elsewhere in Alabama, a lawyer of about 40, of known scholarship, who was willing to begin a new career. . . ." Preparing last week to take up his duties as Alabama's President Jan. 1, was just such a man, baldish, scholarly Lawyer Richard Clarke Foster, 41, of Tuscaloosa, fourth generation Alabama alumnus...