He approached Jander, and the elf saw that Gideon was carrying a towheaded child in his arms.

They had two towheaded children.

Among friends, they were joyfully uninhibited, and everyone was certain they would spend the rest of their lives together raising a boatload of willowy towheaded children.

Playing to the crowd, Mr. Clinton listened, and even read along, as two towheaded children, Justin Whitney, 7, and Elizabeth Schweye, 9, read him "The Little Engine That Could."

Even the photo on the desk of three perfect towheaded children with their attractive mother had all the individuality of a financial-services advertisement.

They're supposed to be beautiful and marry rich men and have cute towheaded children.

In August 1996, the President's campaign train stopped in Wyandotte, Mich., where he read "The Little Engine that Could" with two towheaded children.

Curled up on a pallet, fast asleep, was a towheaded, wistful-faced child who could not be older than ten.

But the four towheaded Steffeck children were nowhere in evidence.

Photo montages in the dining room and library show Swede as a fraternity brother at Cornell or as a towheaded child with an impish grin.