Word: martha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the Amuesha Indians, who live near the jungle-bound foothills of the Peruvian Andes, a respected teacher does not get a tribute of apples; she gets worms. Brown-haired, 33-year-old Martha Duff, a Baptist missionary, linguist vacationing at her home in Oral, Tenn. after five years of teaching the Amueshas, recalls: "We were sitting around a fire when several little boys came in. They had found some big fat worms and were about to get into a fight over them. Their mother took over; the worms were put on sticks and left long enough over a fire...
...Yetta G.'s and the seven N. children and pray to God that the "spender-wing of the Democratic party" will never succeed in disrupting that delicate mechanism which moves us towards the glory land. God bless you and keep you, Phillip K. And be of good cheer, Mrs. Martha T. Merry Christmas, Dwight...
Married. Martha Raye, 42, singing comedienne; and Robert O'Shea, 31, Manhattan private eye, former Westport (Conn.) cop whose first wife filed an alienation-of-affections suit against Martha Raye; she for the sixth time, he for the second; by the mayor of Teaneck, N.J., in the mayor's living room...
...Harvard Society for the Study of Western Cultural History and Literature has nominated Martha Streiff '61. Extending professional courtesy to other college humor publications, the CRIMSON has permitted the Columbia Jester to nominate Priscilla Bowden '61. Also, the Yale Daily News sent a special telegram request last night that Miss Myra Kriegel, one of the eight experimental New Haven co-eds, be considered. From as far away as the University of Colorado nominations have come in. Miss Marilyn Kelly of CU has been nominated by the Flatiron, a frequently banned local humor magazine...
Thank you, you lovely, talented bastards for your moving, wallop-packing story on Martha...