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Cecile Dionne learned to say "doctor" before she did "mother." As one of the Dionne girls - the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy, born 75 years ago on May 28 - Cecile spent her first nine years under medical care in "Quintland," a hospital that essentially doubled as a government-run theme park. Born in Ontario to a pair of devout Catholics (who had, and would produce, several additional children), the Dionne quintuplets were an immediate media sensation, a Depression-era precursor to today's Octomoms and Jon and Kates. Two months premature, weighing about 2 lb. each, Cecile, Annette...
...Lewis L. B. Gifford ’51, who worked with Updike on The Lampoon, said that Updike once showed him a bound volume of his early writings in his Hollis dorm room. The work had been typed by Updike’s mother, herself an aspiring writer who worked in a department store...
Robert Burns was born 250 years ago, on January 25, 1759, in Alloway, Scotland. His father was a tenant farmer and his mother never learned to write, but Burns read voraciously and managed to secure a fairly thorough education. His family had very little money - when his father died, he left the family bankrupt - which inspired the egalitarian, anti-authority themes that would appear in Burns' future works...
...child she was loud and talked constantly. She talked so loud we had her hearing tested, but it turned out her hearing was fine and that she just wanted to get her point across." - Polly Rutnik, Gillibrand's mother, in the Albany Times-Union...
...mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey." - Saratoga.com (undated...