Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miner's shack.) William Ryan was a footloose Irishman who had met and married Kate Halberstadt Bender, a young widow with two children. Kate, who had emigrated from Germany as a ten-year-old girl, soon presented her husband with two sons, Bill and Tom. The youngest of their three children was formally baptized Thelma Catherine, but Will Ryan, mindful of the fact that she was born on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, added the name Patricia. Before the baby was a year old, Kate Ryan persuaded Will to give up mining (her first husband...
...think, 'Here is our audience, right down here.' " Born Gretl Maerkl in Bavaria, Singer Belleri was signed for the Met in the summer of 1910, while she was still a Munich schoolgirl. When she reported for duty that fall, she was, at 16, the youngest chorus member in Met history, made her debut in the 1910 season in Aïda, with Caruso. In those days, the chorus was bigger - 120 members - and the newest arrival was paid $24 a week, plus $2 for solos. In the present unionized chorus, Belleri earns around $155 a week...
...went to study in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1930. Only four years later he was one of three candidates for an archbishopric submitted by Pope Pius XI to King Alexander of Yugoslavia. The King passed over the two other distinguished clergymen to make Stepinac, 36, the youngest archbishop in the church. Three years later, he was Archbishop of Zagreb, spiritual leader of the predominantly Catholic Croats...
Married. Lindsay Crosby, 22, youngest of Bing's four boys; and Barbara Frederickson, 22, Las Vegas show girl; in Los Angeles...
...royal palace at Rabat, Morocco's genial King Mohammed V was caught in a heartwarming domestic moment, as he fed a breakfast dainty to his dainty youngest daughter, Princess Amina, 5. Though plenty of gold and silver tableware was on hand, Mohammed ladled out the victuals with a wooden spoon...