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Lady from Ohio. During World War I, brown-haired Harriet Day, a coed at Ohio State University, served coffee and doughnuts to troop trains passing through Columbus. One young soldier named John Bricker fell in love with Harriet's twinkling-eyed dignity, and after the war courted and married her. As a Columbus lawyer's wife Harriet Day Bricker painted, played the piano, gardened, composed song lyrics, raised son Jackie, 13, quietly helped her husband become Governor of Ohio. An efficient, handsome hostess, Mrs. Bricker will make no soapbox speeches in her husband's coming campaign...
Anna was a more subversive influence than anyone knew. She read Uncle Tom's Cabin to the slaves. Her favorite pupil among the King's wives, Son Klim, signed her letters, "Harriet Beecher Stowe Son Klim." Once Anna found the wives bidding for an 18-months-old white baby girl, the child of a native woman and an English sailor. Anna bought both mother and child for $72 to save them from slavery...
...Calvin Ellis Stowe, who taught religion at Bowdoin while his wife Harriet wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...boys' father was away. Francis Lee Higginson Jr. of Groton and Harvard, son of a famed Boston banking family, was serving in Key West, Fla. as a Lieut. Commander in the U.S. Navy. The mother who now lay so still and strange on the floor was the former Harriet Beecher Scoville of Hampton, Va., slim, vivacious, 31, a Back Bay Boston belle, great-granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher...
...committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about a third of the year with him in his Mayflower Hotel apartment, the rest in Spokane where their daughters Harriet, 17, and Elizabeth, 13, are in high school. Johnston tries to get home one week in every eight...