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  2. Eleanor Gehrig - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Twitchell was born March 6, 1904, in Chicago, the daughter of Nellie (née Mulvaney 1884–1968) and Frank Twitchell. [3] She had one brother, Frank. [4] Eleanor stated in her memoir she was a product of the roaring twenties and during this time in Chicago she led a party-girl lifestyle while climbing Chicago's social ladder, eventually meeting Gehrig at a party while he was in town ...

  3. Lou Gehrig - Wikipedia

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    Gehrig's life was the subject of the 1942 film The Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper as Gehrig and Teresa Wright as his wife Eleanor. It received eleven Academy Award nominations and won in one category, Film Editing .

  4. The Pride of the Yankees - Wikipedia

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    Gehrig is unknowingly included by his teammates in playing pranks on Ruth on the team train. During a game at Comiskey Park, Gehrig trips over a stack of bats and is teased by a spectator, Eleanor (the daughter of the ballpark hot dog magnate), who laughingly calls him "tanglefoot". Later, they are properly introduced, leading to a relationship ...

  5. Hear the stories of these notorious characters in Broome ...

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    The scheming of one person whose plan bamboozled the entire nation for a while during the age of quackery is also profiled during the program.

  6. A day for Gehrig: Eighty years later, they still come ... - AOL

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  7. Rud Rennie - Wikipedia

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    With Gehrig's 1939 diagnosis [29] of A.L.S. (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness, paralysis, and ultimately, respiratory failure), Rennie remained close to the ballplayer and his wife Eleanor through Gehrig's retirement and downhill slide until Gehrig's death in 1941. [30]

  8. Frank Westmore - Wikipedia

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    He was nominated a third time in 1978 with his nephew Michael for A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story. [3] [4] He also co-wrote a biography of the family, The Westmores of Hollywood in 1976. [5]

  9. Former Playboy playmate jumps to her death with 7-year-old son

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    A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...