Word: roberta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When fire destroyed her home in a Chicago suburb, 14-year-old Roberta Lee Mason rescued four brothers & sisters. But she was burned so badly that she had to be swathed in bandages from head to foot. Her throat-catching picture (TIME, Feb. 28) made front pages across the U.S. Soon money, clothes, even chewing gum began to pour in; everybody wanted to "do something for Roberta." But what the Masons needed was a new house...
...Sexton, boss of the local A.F.L. Carpenters Union. Mike pulled on an old khaki jacket and went out to build the house himself-his first carpentry job in 32 years. Other unions contributed labor while builders supplied materials. This week, a $17,000 free Cape Cod-style house for Roberta was rising out of the ashes...
Next, tabloid readers paused over the pictures of three sad-eyed youngsters gazing at their bandage-wrapped sister in a hospital bed. Fourteen-year-old Roberta Lee Mason had saved her five brothers and sisters from death when fire destroyed their home in a Chicago suburb. The "fire heroine," said the Mirror, was "wrapped in her white badge of courage...
...Reminiscent of the Ziegfeld era was Broadway's revival of the musical that starred Marilyn Miller: 1. Girl Crazy. 2. Rose Marie. 3. Roberta. 4. Sally. 5. The Ziegfeld Follies...
...week's end, in Rosemere, Quebec, with daughter Roberta Gail, 16, as maid of honor, Jessica Allan was married in dusty pink to Garnet Coulter in a blue-striped double-breasted. Mrs. Coulter told newsmen that she had no idea where the honeymoon would be spent, but the mayor had "quite a few problems" to attend to back home. In Winnipeg the City Council got set for a bang-up reception, cagily waited to see what the Coulters would like for a present...