Word: liliane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sitting on the front porch that bright October morning, Lilian Sayre wondered for the hundredth time who little Petie's daddy might be. Big, black Clara, Petie's unmarried mother and the Sayres' woman of all work, was raking leaves; her brown-skinned youngster was cleaning the bird bath. Then the truth hit Lilian like a cosmic shock: Petie's father was Lilian's own husband, Carl. Clara did not even try to deny it. Neither, later, did Carl Sayre. But though Lilian kicked Clara out that very day and burned down the backyard shack...
...people of Bloomingdale, Ala., Lilian Sayre must have seemed a lucky girl. Conventionally pretty and completely ordinary, she had come from a farm village in the middle of the state and married handsome Carl Sayre. He was only a grocer, to be sure, but by Bloomingdale standards he was well-to-do and a good catch. Their failure in marriage began on the wedding night, when Carl got raving drunk. Lilian had neither the intelligence nor the maturity to try to understand Carl, a decent enough fellow when he was not drinking. As time went on, he came to think...
...winning candidates are: Amado A. Castro 2G, Economics; Morris L. Cogan 1G, Education; Lilian M. Cramer, Fine Arts; Robert B. Edmonds 1G, China Program; Melvin D. Feldstein 2G, Engineering; Hester C. Fuller, History; Calvin S. Hamilton 2G, Design; and Harry J. Hodder 4G, Government-Economics...
Died. Margaret Mayo (Lilian Clatten), 68, oldtime hit playwright (Baby Mine, Polly of the Circus) ; after long illness; in Ossining...