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...White House staff had already set up an office in the laundry room, and the telephone company had installed special phones. Over the barn door a red, white and blue banner announced MARYWOOD FARMS WELCOMES PRESIDENT CARTER...
...night as a guest of Farmer Woodrow Wilson Diehl and his wife Mary, It was the President's second overnight visit with an American family-and the Diehls' second visit from a President. In 1966 Lyndon Johnson stopped by for a few hours to look over Marywood, one of Iowa's showcase farms, on his way to a Democratic fund raiser in Des Moines...
Eileen (who died a year and a half ago), she was literally a big sister who could beat up any bully in town, and the celebrated story is true that she was picked to be Marywood's Queen of the May because she was the only girl tall enough to crown an enormous statue of the Virgin...
Self-consciously, she developed a defensive talent for the quick rejoinder. A Marywood priest once tried to sell her a copy of the Sacred Heart Messenger. "What would you rather read?" he argued. "The Sears, Roebuck catalogue," said Jean. One teacher flunked her when, during a ponderous lecture on doctrine, she broke in to inform the class that "a man's best friend is his dogma...
Enter Wally. She was a pretty girl with' long 1941 hair and memorable blue eyes, but she seldom went out, and had an aversion to all but the tallest boys. "They had to be ready for Ringling's," she recalls. At Marywood, she dabbled in dramatics, played the mother superior in The Kingdom of God. During her sophomore year, Walter Francis Kerr came to Scranton to see a student performance of Romeo and Juliet. Jean was the stage manager. He was 5 ft. 8 in. and pushing 30, but soon she was telling her mother, with a gesture toward...