Word: seven-year-old
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...Commoner sped off for a weekend in the country, traveling separately but meeting at the Wills's vast, parklike estate in Berkshire. Hordes of newsmen and photographers collected outside its wrought-iron gates. Desperate for news, they moved in hungrily on the only source at hand, seven-year-old Marilyn Wills, when she strolled down to the gates. What is going on? they asked...
...kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted her to the rank of sergeant.* Today the seven-year-old mare is living in honored retirement, knee-deep in alfalfa, near Camp Pendleton, Calif...
What Went Wrong? On the day Larry Vicker was stricken, a 13-month-old boy in Pocatello, Idaho got sick too. He had been vaccinated eight days earlier. Also in Pocatello, Susan Pierce, seven, became ill with bulbar polio three days after her inoculation. Within two days she was dead. In Moscow, Idaho, another seven-year-old girl died. A rash of cases was reported, from Napa, Calif, to Chicago...
...widow, Maryland McCormick, 57, the Colonel willed a $100,000 yearly income for life. At her own request, he left her no say in the Trib. "I'm not a newspaperwoman." says Maryland McCormick. "Some people thought I would take a bigger hand in things, but I just don't want it." The Colonel did spot an heir way down on the family tree. In his will he asked that seven-year-old Mark McCormick Miller, Bazy Tankersley's son by her first marriage, be "given an opportunity to be employed on the staff of the Chicago...
...world's fourth known family case of female hemophilia was reported in Seattle by two University of Washington internists. Thomas Newcomb and Martin Matter. Their discovery, confirmed by standard tests: a seven-year-old girl who reversed the usual transmission pattern (mother-carrier-to-son) by inheriting the disease from her father's side of the family.* A paternal grand-uncle is known to have had bleeding problems in childhood; there is no maternal hemophilia history. The girl was hospitalized after loosening baby teeth caused excessive bleeding, is now responding favorably to standard treatment (i.e., injection of fresh...