Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the hospital at Pisco, Peru last month came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes. She led by the hand a shy little girl, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen. Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Geraldo Lozada to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of her. Certain that little Lina Medina had an abdominal tumor, Dr. Lozada examined her, received the surprise of his life when he discovered she was eight months pregnant...
...took pictures of Lina's teeth and bones, concluded that she was nearer six than five, for her milk teeth had begun to fall out. Her pelvic bones, although small, were adult in shape, and she was, said Dr. Hipólito Larrabure of Lima enthusiastically, "a miniature woman." He cordially invited "some U. S. foundation to send an investigator to Lima" to observe the youngest mother in the world...
...summer he barnstormed through the West carrying a woman parachute jumper in pink tights, to be let out over county fairs. He even set a few records, an altitude mark for hydroplanes (4,400 feet) in 1912, the longest overwater hop (from Newport Beach, Calif. 28 miles to Catalina Island) in the same year. Because aviators were few, the return was handsome. Most of it went into the factory. Because publicity for Martin-and he got plenty-was publicity for Martin planes, the business flourished. Even Father Martin (who died in 1935) admitted that Glenn had been on the right...
...Scheherazade," Finale Rimsky-Korsakov Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies -- Miriam Winslow, Foster Fitz-Simons and Eusemble Warrene Bulkeley Jacqueline Magrath June MacLaren Mary Morse *"Little Women" (Theme and Variations) Tchaikovsky "City Faun" (Satirical Dance Morton Gould *Magnificat (Air for the G String) Bach "Caribbee" Milhaud *"Archangel" (Gymnopedio I) Satle "Frail Woman" (Excerpts from "Pour les Enfants") Tansman "Chromo: American Dance" (Harmonica Player from Alley Tunes) Guion *Polonaise Militaire Chopin *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Score Harvard Square...
Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London...