Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania, voters of the 26th congressional district picked 41-year-old Republican Attorney John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...
Last week medical men at Carville wrote a happy ending to the Hornbostel story: Mrs. Hornbostel, who had shown "remarkable improvement," was released from isolation and the couple headed for New York and a new start in life...
...longer has time for exhaustive research into the folkways of urban Jewish life ("Fortunately, Molly never has to be too accurate"). Over the years, the Goldbergs' fan letters (several thousand a month) have maintained a steady 50-50 average between Jews and non-Jews. Mrs. Berg likes to recall the time the Mother Superior of a Philadelphia convent wrote to ask for a synopsis of six weeks' programs. "She said the nuns were regular listeners but they'd given up the Goldbergs for Lent and now they were wondering what had happened...
There is a "very good chance" that Molly and her family will soon be in a movie. But the Goldbergs' invasion of Hollywood, says Mrs. Berg, "will have to wait until my next vacation...
...seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach. Though Marlene came back strong on the last nine, she was down one on the 18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother to take the title since Glenna Collett Vare took it 14 years...