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...Sacramento, Calif., a ring fell from the sky upon Mrs. Anna Briggs, raised a bump on her noggin. Over Sacramento in a plane, Dr. W. Stanley was frantic because the ring had been a gift from Theodore Roosevelt. To Mrs. Briggs, of whom he heard by radio, Dr. Stanley few days later gave $325 and a trip to the New York World's Fair...
...Roosevelts marry young. Though Franklin Roosevelt was barely 23 when he took to wife Eleanor Roosevelt, 20, his offspring have married younger: Anna at 20, Elliott at 21, Franklin Jr., John and James...
...Roosevelts are quick to become parents. Franklin and Eleanor had been married 13 mos., 27 days when Anna arrived. Their children, with one exception, have been quicker. Anna bore her first 9 mos., 20 days after marriage. Elliott became a father 10 mos., i day after his first marriage, 9 mos., 17 days after his second. Franklin Jr. fathered Franklin III a year and 20 days after he married Ethel du Pont. Only James lagged behind. He had been a husband 21 months before he became a father...
...Manhattan millinery trade have known Louis Greenfield, a Hungarian Jew who fought for the U. S. in the War and has a little business in West 38th Street, as an honest, hard-working chap almost too devoted to his wife, Anna, and the son she bore him in 1922. They knew he borrowed money right & left to get nurses, doctors, treatments for the son, Jerry, who was forever ailing. They knew that worry aged Louis Greenfield prematurely. But only his intimates knew that the child, who would have been 17 last March, was a quivering, overgrown, cross-eyed imbecile...
...Manhattan, Housewife Anna Abdou invaded a classroom in Public School 78, an ax in one hand, two iron stove legs in the other, screamed: "I hate kids. I'm going to kill you all." While the teacher tried to calm her, then tried to ignore her, Mrs. Abdou smashed doors, desks, radiators. Arrested, she explained that the school children persistently threw stones through her windows...