President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to Mary Ann Fischer, and the Saturday Evening Post featured photos of the babies — Mary Ann, Mary Catherine, Mary Margaret, Mary Magdalene and James Andrew — on its cover. Gifts poured in for the quintuplets and their parents, including diaper service, baby clothes and college scholarships, along with insurance policies for a new 17-room mansion a mile outside of Aberdeen, a city of about 27,000 people in northeast South Dakota. The couple signed a five-year exclusive contract with a publishing house for coverage of the family in December 1963, with the bulk of that money going into a trust fund for the couple's children.