Word: norah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father. The chances of a man in Britain siring four children at a single birth are 600,000-to-1. Auburn-haired auburn-skinned Sergeant Bill had made it. Life, he felt at that moment, had no problems he couldn't lick. He was not married to Norah Carpenter, the English mother of his quadruplets. He had a wife, Eleanor, back in Pittsburgh, whom he had married (after a three-year acquaintance) just before he went overseas. But he had written Eleanor long ago, told her that their marriage had been a mistake, that he was in love with...
Bill was around one night last week when "the baby" was expected in Norah's home in sooty, unlovely Heanor. "I sat in the kitchen drinking tea and smoking," he related, until Norah's mother came in and said, 'It's a girl. There's another one coming.' I couldn't say a word. I thought, 'Jeeze, think of me being the father of twins...
...When I got back to Norah's I said, 'Don't tell me there's another...
...Mother. Frail, fluffy-haired Norah Carpenter, former telephone operator in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, sat up in the tiny bedroom of her miner-father's house. Piled around her were congratulatory messages and neighbors' gifts: diapers, blankets, baby boots and dresses...
...visitors Norah said: "I wish to make no secret of the fact I'm single." Her bustling mother said: "We would rather be honest about it." Heanor's town council opened a subscription for the babies, itself led the donations with ?25. To Norah at that moment, life had never seemed so exciting. Even the local cinema sent a gift: "Flicker tickets for life...