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...sizzling day last summer, Mabel and Rafael Valdes packed their two daughters and Mabel's grandmother into the family's Ford Explorer and headed down Highway I-75 for the 2-hr. drive from Coral Gables to Naples, Fla. But on the way, according to Mabel and her attorney, the tread tore loose--"like peeling a banana," says Mabel--from one of the Explorer's rear Firestone tires, causing the sport-utility vehicle to spin out of control, slam into a guardrail and flip over. The accident badly injured Valdes and her family and left her grandmother dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firestone's Tire Crisis | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...MABEL (MARVIN) PIERCE 1869-(unavailable) Was college educated and played the piano. Columba Bush, Jeb's wife, inherited her wedding ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: The Family Tree | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

Congratulations. Never before have I seen such a fascinating contrast of good and evil both within and especially between two men. It is like combat between God and the devil. But I won't say who is the evil one. LEE ZOOK Mabel, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 18, 1999 | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...were for singing, and on the subject of music, Sinatra could write a book. He was generous to his singing contemporaries, maybe because he knew he had no serious rival, but probably too out of a genuine respect for musicianship. He would speak fondly and knowledgeably of Billie Holiday, Mabel Mercer, Tony Bennett. And if he heard you had an ear and were ready to lend one, and if the mood was right and there was a bottle of Scotch in the neighborhood, he could talk about music far into the night. "A Johnny Mercer lyric," he said once, casually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Your Dreams Away: FRANK SINATRA, 1915-1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...James Albert Michener was an orphan, adopted from the Bucks County, Pa. poorhouse by Mabel Michener, a Quaker widow. From there to Swarthmore, to the Navy, and then to Japan, making a hometown - and a novel - of every place he stopped. "Tales of the South Pacific" was his first, born of his Navy days and published in 1947, when Michener was 40. It won the Pulitzer Prize, was set to music, and became immortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Michener, 1907-1997 | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

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