Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks Mike's parents shared a 24-hour vigil by his bedside. His father gave up his job as an auto repairman, his mother turned over the care of her other five children to a social worker. The hospital set up a special kitchen so that Mrs. Rector could cook the protein-rich eggs and hamburgers her son required to build up his ravaged tissue, coax him into eating...
...well driller. Chuck is a hero to Hamlin, but the townspeople love him with special fervor because he refuses to act like a hero. Says Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used...
...slide trombone. He went to Methodist Sunday school, stayed out of trouble, and was quiet almost to the point of being timid. "Nobody ever noticed Charlie Yeager much," says Lyle E. Ashworth, a classmate, "until 1943 when he buzzed the town in a P47 and sent old Mrs. Lon Richardson to the hospital with a case of nerves...
...bought & sold such famous collections as Empire-Builder Collis P. Huntington's and Mining Tycoon E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin's. He also learned that gem buying could be tricky. Once he bought $90,000 worth which he later found had been taken from Socialite Mrs. Isaac Emerson, wife of the Bromo-Seltzer king. Winston had to return...
Divorced. Prince Aly Khan, 37, well-heeled son of the Aga Khan ("Wealthiest Man in the World"); and Princess Aly Khan, 40, the former Mrs. Joan Yarde-Buller Guinness of London; by mutual consent, after nearly 13 years of marriage, two children; in Paris. After a Moslem divorce (mere public proclamation), the Prince will be free to marry his great & good friend, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth...