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Welty can wring humor from the Southern idioms without mocking them. In Petrified Man, a beautician named Leota reminisces about her recent courtship: "Honey, 'me an' Fred, we met in a rumble seat eight months ago and we was practically on what you might call the way to the altar inside of half an hour." In The Wide Net, a none-too-bright husband thinks his pregnant wife has drowned herself; an awkwardly large party is assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with...
After operations and heavy X-ray treatments for cancer of the thyroid, Mrs. Leota Rogers, 21, seemed to be getting along well at a ranch near Moses Lake in central Washington. She was riding her own horses and helping around the house. But a fortnight ago, as she finished an afternoon snack, the carotid artery in the right side of her neck burst where it had been weakened by the cancer and treatment. Blood spurted halfway across the room. Mrs. Rogers took the first step toward saving her life by plugging the pencil-size hole with her finger...
Married. Mona Keys, 25, one of Oklahoma's famed Keys quadruplets; and Robert W. Fowler; in Oklahoma City, Okla. Bridesmaids were Co-Quadruplets Roberta, Leota, Mary...
Over two years ago Dr. Arthur G. Schroeder operated on Mrs. Leota Hayden in Chicago's Ravenswood Hospital. After the operation Mrs. Hayden needed a blood transfusion. She had Type IV blood; therefore the donor's blood had to be of the same type. Transfusions of Types I, II, or III blood would clot in her serum, block her circulation...
Graduated. Quadruplets Leota, Mary, Mona, and Roberta Keys; from Baylor University, Waco, Tex. They plan to go on the vaudeville stage...