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...self-continued husband who had no purpose in life other than proving his prowess of seduction into that of a warm, likeable person. His interest in Janet Spencer, a spinster who had retreated to an aesthetic world, arose from an intellectual affinity he had never found in his invalid, self-pitying wife. Miss Spencer poisoned the wife assuming that she thus freed the husband for herself. It actually freed him to marry an eighteen year old girl with whom he had been having an affair...
Died. Anne de Gaulle, 18, invalid youngest child of Charles de Gaulle's three; of bronchial pneumonia; at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, France...
Barbara Ann's daddy, with his broken body (the army rated him 75% invalid) wanted his only daughter to do everything he couldn't, and to do it well. He called her "Tinker"-a nickname nobody else ever used-and she thought her daddy was something pretty special. When Clyde Scott hobbled around the nine-hole cow-pasture golf course at Kingsmere in the summers, "Tinker" caddied...
...natural athlete. Her daddy taught her how to swim in two weeks. She climbed trees like a monkey and hung by her knees from the branches. She rode horseback and played golf. Skating was her own idea. From her father, who despite his invalid body worked 18 to 20 hours a day in the Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat...
...HEAR STRANGE THINGS ABOUT CATHOLICS. . . . You hear it said that Catholics believe all non-Catholics are headed for Hell . . . that they believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid . . . that they adore statues . . . are forbidden to read the Bible . . . use medals, candles and holy water as sure-fire protection against the loss of a job, lightning or being run down by an automobile...