Word: oliva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oliva Dionne, father of Canada's famed quintuplets, called an unwonted press conference last week in the $60,000 house that his daughters' income built at Corbeil, Ont. "The quints did not come home for Christmas," Papa Dionne announced sadly. "We didn't even receive a card from them. They didn't write; they didn't phone. We have realized for some months that they have been drifting away ... we decided it would be better if we didn't try to camouflage things any longer...
...four surviving Dionne quintuplets (TIME, Aug. 16), who a month ago came home from a Montreal college for a holiday, had neither gone back to school nor been seen outside the big Dionne mansion since her return. At Marguerite Bourgeoys College, officials claimed that Marie had been sick. But Oliva ("Papa") Dionne said no, Marie was not ailing, just lonely and sick of the school...
Near Callander, Ont., Mrs. Oliva Dionne, 41, mother of the famed quintuplets, vigorously denied a rumor that she was expecting triplets...