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...heavy and cumbersome with un attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno). To Reno, their first born, Paw & Maw proudly referred as their "monstous curosity." He was 20 years old, six feet two inches tall, weighed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The WP & A | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...distant cousin, Charles Armour, in his own Lake Forest home. Both contracted the disease presumably at St. Mark's, whence their parents snatched them last month at first word of epidemic. To a hospital room next to their son went Philip Danforth Armour III and his wife Gwendolin. Said the mother: "It is worth the risk to stay near him." Fourteen years ago Philip IV. then 5, and his sister Gwendolin, then 6, were stricken with an undiagnosed infection. The little girl died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Again, Infantile Paralysis | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Chairman, J. R. Flather, Faith Bemis; J. K. Dow, Gwendolin Brooks; F. B. Allen, Margaret Hannington; P. J. FitzGerald, Mary FitzFerald; F. Flather; Leon Fletcher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR SPREAD BOX ARRANGEMENTS STATED | 6/14/1923 | See Source »

...Married. Gwendolin Marshall Field, granddaughter and heiress of the late Marshall Field of Chicago, to Archibald Charles Edmondstone, son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, in London. Earl Beatty, First Lord of the Admiralty, gave the bride away, in the absence of her brother, who is ill. The groom's father presented the couple with the ancient castle of Duntreath in Stirlingshire, near Glasgow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

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