Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the call came through to her Louisville home last week, Emma Clarissa Clement was off at a district church conference in Springfield, Ky. Her daughter took the message. Mrs. Clement had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Said the citation: "A mother of children who are devotedly serving their country and their people, a partner in her husband's ministry in his lifetime, a social and community worker in her own right...
Juliana had better marital luck than her mother. Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was another German princeling, and vaguely suspected of Nazi sympathies to boot. But his record of intense loyalty to his Queen and adopted country during the war has made Prince Bernhard the most popular man in Holland today. In the last year of the war, he served as head of the Dutch resistance movement, later organized relief of stricken areas...
Mary MacArthur, 16, daughter of Actress Helen Hayes and Playwright Charles MacArthur, approached her stage debut in a speaking part.* Coming (to summer theaters in New Hope, Pa., and Suffern, N.Y.): mother & daughter in Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire...
...mysterious Rh factor-in human blood had disturbed the serenity of many a mother-to-be. For if a wife's blood were Rh negative and a husband's Rh positive, their child might be stillborn, or born with erythroblastosis fetalis, characterized by anemia and jaundice...
What happens is that the baby's red blood cells which contain the Rh factor become mixed in some unknown way with the Rh negative blood of the mother. Result: to combat the invading cells, her tissues produce destructive antibodies. These then diffuse back into the unborn child's blood stream, attacking the blood cells, causing the disease...