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Born. To Annette Dionne Allard, 24, second Dionne quintuplet (after Cecile) to become a mother, and Finance-Company Official Germain Allard, 25: a son; in Cartierville, Que. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...oritas, the girls can begin having well-chaperoned dates. In a few years the boys will be sent to college in either Canada or England. "When they were children," said father Diligenti, "I had to make sure that they grew up as independent personalities, free from a quintuplet complex. Now that they are men and women, they must learn to fly on their own wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Quints Come Out | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...broader, slapstick way, Fernandel in Sheep takes on the tricky business of multiple roles, after the fashion of Alec (Kind Hearts and Coronets) Guinness. Separately, and in some technically flawless group scenes, he plays Papa Saint-Forget, a crippled, bitter old vintner, and five quintuplet sons, Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré, and Etienne. The episodic action begins in Trezignan, a French village where some 39 years before the film begins, Papa Saint-Forget, wanting a daughter, has become the unhappy parent of the five boys. In an effort to revive the prosperity that was Trezignan's when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Noting alarm among their patients over Quintuplet Emilie Dionne's death a fortnight ago after epileptic seizures, U.S. epilepsy experts hastened to issue reassurances: the disorder is rarely fatal, and in four cases out of five the seizures can be staved off or alleviated by drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...Nineteen-year-old Quintuplet Marie Dionne, for whom half the world prayed when her life flickered for days after her birth, announced that she would become a nun. She will enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Quebec City this fall, a cloistered order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament. "From now on," she said, "I will have an opportunity to repay those people who remembered me when I was in need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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