Word: otelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Otelia Augspurger Compton, 85, "American Mother for 1939," widow of Elias Compton, dean of the College of Wooster, mother of three sons (all in Who's Who) and one daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...
Sirs: When it comes to writing, Ernie Pyle has nothing on the person who wrote "Ernie Pyle's War" [TIME, July 17]. That was plenty good! OTELIA C. CONNOR Durham...