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Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to three Radcliffe students: Wilda M. Marraffino, to study Modern Italian History in Rome; Laura Maslow to study French History and Literature at Marseilles; and Mrs. Renee E. Watkins to study History in Florence...
Homer Bradshaw, feeble and haggard (he had lost 40 Ibs.), helped his wife to freedom across the Lowu Bridge that separates Hong Kong from Communist China; as they walked onto British soil, Red Cross workers had to support them. Wilda Bradshaw, skeleton-thin and empty-eyed, mumbled incoherently and shrank in terror from photographers' flashbulbs...
Copilot. In Los Angeles, after arresting Lyle Gann for drunken driving, police searched his car, in the trunk compartment found his wife Wilda, who explained: "I knew he would get drunk, so I stowed away so I could drive him home...
Mattiwilda was born the fifth of six daughters of John W. Dobbs, an Atlanta railway mail clerk who is also a vice-chairman of Georgia's Republican State Central Committee. Her name was concocted from those of her maternal grandmother (Mattie Wilda), and she sees no reason to change it: "People usually remember it." She sang solos in Atlanta's First Congregational Church as a youngster, went from that to music studies at Atlanta's Spelman College. In 1946 she shipped off to Manhattan to study voice, but prudently supplemented her musical training with teaching credits, took...
Fruita responded to the emergency. Townspeople sped to the scene in private cars to carry the Minters to a hospital. Mrs. Wilda Lahue offered them an unoccupied house she owned. "Here's the key," she said. "Use it as long as you wish." Other womenfolk brought furnishings and food to stock the house. Cecil Schafer gave Minter a job as a laborer with his Schafer Construction Co. While Mrs. Minter was recovering, women took turns caring for the family. Fruita's citizens paid for repairing the Minters' truck, for their hospital bills, and for Margaret...