Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Named by her mother, who had been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the U.S. later, W.C.T.U. President Frances Elizabeth Willard persuaded Eva Booth to assume the fuller, more formal name Evangeline...
...fountain in a courtyard, surrounded by a marble wall. "The idea," explains Milles, "is to help people overcome the tragedy of death. To show that people have a good time there, too." There will be a young husband, arms out stretched to welcome his wife into the afterworld; a mother greeting a daughter; a French family which had been killed in an auto accident; two sisters who had drowned; an American mother who had died in childbirth, and her baby who had died three weeks later...
Carl Milles has always preferred a studio. Born in Sweden, he started modeling early, baking his clay in his mother's oven and avoiding school as much as possible. His father began to think his delicate son was a dullard. "Send the boy to me. I'll make a man of him," a friend wrote the father. Milles set out, "but I stopped in Paris. I stopped in Paris forever. For six years, I didn't write home. I was excited about...
...what they used to be. But he still makes the modest claim that he is the "world's greatest pitcher." Satchel† Paige was born in Mobile, Ala., 39, 43 or more probably 45 years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next man-as long as he could pitch. Bob Feller had told Veeck that...
...constructively but not sure how to go about it. Grandfather West, crusty and conservative owner of a powerful chain of magazines, looks at first to Dixon like a threat to the good life, and finally seems like the man to emulate. Dixon's father is a boozy weakling; mother is a sentimental hypochondriac. Mig Holmes, the handsome body Dixon finally marries, is a near-dipsomaniac widow of good family but dwindling fortune...