Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Property Rights. In Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Elmore Fryar sued for divorce, asked her husband's motorcycle as alimony...
...Mrs. Commissioner Pugmire goes to the office with him two or three mornings a week. As is the army rule, she holds the same rank as her husband. Their five children are all married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them...
When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...
Second prize of $10,000 went to Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Ill. for her mint surprise cookies; third prize of $4,000 to Mrs. R. W. Sprague of San Marino, Calif, for her Carrie's Creole chocolate cake...
Treatment. In Morgantown, W. Va., Mrs. Isabell Shaffer, suing the Monongalia General Hospital, charged that while she was being X-rayed there for a broken arm, she fell off the laboratory table and broke...