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...Mussolini family life, there is no specific date for Edda's birth. She was said to be 19 at the time of her marriage; that would make her 28 or 29 now. It is virtually certain that Edda, whoever her mother was, was born out of wedlock. Socialist Mussolini, an extreme anticlerical, would scarcely have permitted himself a church wedding, and civil weddings were practically unheard of. Besides, it was common knowledge, until at least 1920, that Benito and Rachele had never bothered to go through a marriage ceremony. A romantic story has it that Edda's trips...
...Currick and Evans ($1.50). *Seldom used by lawyers is the term illegitimacy in adoption. A child born out of wedlock belongs to its mother, may legally bear her name and inherit her property...
...prematurely emancipated the slaves in his district. As an explorer, he became such a popular favorite at 29 after his first Western trip, that later and harder journeys were anticlimactic. He raised the U. S. flag in California before the Mexican War broke out. He was born out of wedlock and married in haste. He fell in love with smart, ambitious Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri's great Senator, but she was only fifteen; he married her secretly two years later, before he had her father's consent...
...Pablo Picasso was, as you report, Blasco Ruiz and his mother's name was Maria Picasso, then his name would have been Pablo Ruiz y Picasso which will explain why he is known by his mother's name. Now, if he had been born out of wedlock, his name would have been Pablo Picasso, and his father's name would not have appeared in his name...
Divorced. James McDonald III, 24, Idaho oil heir; by Alecea Brezee McDonald; in Reno. Grounds: desertion. Hour later Mr. McDonald married Doris Marie Cunningham, 22, to give their son born out of wedlock a legal name, was promptly divorced by her on grounds of cruelty, next day married June C. Kerns...