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While Jimmy Carter tried to outrun the attack-rabbit story, Daughter Amy bade goodbye to her maverick mongrel Grits. Born on Election Day 1976, Grits was a gift to the First Daughter from Verona Meeder, her fifth-grade teacher. The dog was returned, presidential aides insisted, because its mother had died, leaving Mrs. Meeder canineless. As usual, however, there were leaks in high places. One was that Amy's pet was sent back because, after 2½ years, it still was not White House broken. · It may be the only gym that contributes profits to California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...schoolmate, Claudia Sanchez, the daughter of a Chilean Embassy cook. There was also bowling in the basement alley, a snowball fight with her mother and brothers outside the Oval Office and a fast new friend: Grits, a mongrel puppy that was given to her by her new teacher Verona Meeder. After spending his first night on the pink rug in Amy's second-floor bedroom along with her cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Grits was moved to the kennel. Said one White House aide: "She really loves that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fast Start for the First Kid | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...first day in her combined fourth-and fifth-grade class, Amy practiced handwriting, read Paul Reveres Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs. Meeder's ver dict was that Amy was "very unaffected, very natural, very independent. She just fit in beautifully." In Plains, she attended a predominantly black school, and Stevens has a similar racial mix. Of the 217 students, 60% are black and 30% are foreign born-mostly the children of employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fast Start for the First Kid | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...Saturday at 2. For the rest of the week, "Little Em'ly," the cast strengthened by the addition of Mrs. Thos. Barry, Mrs. Agnes Booth, Mr. J. J. Sullivan, and Mr. E. Lamb, Messrs. O'Neill, Boniface, and Shannon of last week's cast, together with Mrs. C. F. Meeder and Miss Cary, being still with the company. On Monday next "Harverly's European Mastodon Minstrels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

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