Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Melrose Park, Pa...
Occupational Ailment. In Saxonburg, Pa., Susan Stewart, 100, was chosen "oldest [doughnut] dunker in America" by the National Dunking Association, but had to turn down a trip to New York because of chronic indigestion...
...parents were Lithuanian immigrants and she was born Jievute Paulekiute in a coal patch near Noblestown, Pa. In 1924, her mother got a divorce, took Jievute and her younger sister to Chicago. Mrs. Paulekas got a job in a mattress factory, married a carpenter named Peter Neveckas, settled down in an apartment near the stockyards. Jievute went to Chicago's Healy Grammar School, where two big things happened to her-she discovered that she was a very smart girl and she began calling herself Eva. At Englewood High School she shortened Paulekiute to Paul...
...Rockefellers' Manhattan press-agents set up a conference at the Guests' palatial home to appease the clamoring press. Bobo said: "I love him very much." She talked about her early life, said that her father was dead (she was misinformed-he was mining coal in Washington, Pa.) and showed reporters her engagement ring, a 1½-carat, square-cut diamond, set in platinum. Winthrop parried newsmen's thrusts with wit and a bridegroom's smile...
...potential new weapon, used experimentally on mice, cockroaches and mosquitoes by the Army Signal Corps at State College, Pa., employs...