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People around Feather Falls remember when anyone who got seriously injured was likely to be strapped into a canoe for a bumpy 20-mile ride down the lumber flume to the Marysville hospital. Those less ill were treated by the Widow Griffith-until she died at the age of 98. Says Marysville's Dr. Lynn Frink: "They would come in with half their face eaten away with a cancer that could have been treated successfully three years ago; or they'd be in bad shape from heart disease when all they needed was digitalis. If they should have...
...teams of a patriarch and a widow go for the title...
Make no bones about it. The Los Angeles Rams are one big battling family. Appearing in their first Super Bowl after 14 years as the league's perennial bridegrooms, the Rams are a motley crew presided over by a beautiful and stubborn widow who fired her stepson, hinted of plans to unload her coach and outraged her players. The Steelers, as befits the defending Super Bowl champions, sailed through their season like a proud flagship; the Rams endured the football equivalent of a voyage on the Bounty...
...simply swapped his Baltimore Colt franchise with then Rams Owner Robert Irsay and also managed to make a tax-free $4.4 million profit on the deal. Going it alone was a quality Rosenbloom taught his son Steve, 35, and his second wife Georgia, 52, who was to become his widow, and therein...
...couple of newlyweds sold off their incomplete sterling silver dinner service because they did not want to pay the high price to buy the missing pieces. In New York a schoolgirl sold her father's old gold bridgework to help pay her way through college; an elderly widow sold her gold jewelry piece by piece; and one woman recently traded in her gold I.U.D. In Los Angeles Dealer Schwary reported buying everything from a three-foot-high silver trophy awarded in a 1930s auto race to Vietnamese taels, ultrathin gold pieces the size of calling cards...