Word: antonia
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...Press Subscriber John Golubic, a retired railroad baggageman. Andrica's mission was only partly successful. He arrived at Pavla Miskina Ulica i only to find that Golubic's 75-year-old sister had gone to the country to help some relatives harvest hay. But her daughter, Mrs. Antonia Ivkovich, was home; she and Andrica had a long and sentimental talk -in Croatian. Then Andrica said, "Dovidjenja" ("Goodbye"), and pressed on to Plitvice, the place of waterfalls, where relatives of other Clevelanders dwell...
...involuted as to suggest an anthropologist's chart of the mating patterns of a tribe at once polygamous and polyandrous. Among the wholly amoral cast of characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering...
...next week to catch them." So Colleen Dicks, who had been threatened with cancellation of her ninth birthday party last week because she had German measles, had a party after all. As she blew out the nine candles Colleen presumably sent a virus-laden breath over Guest of Honor Antonia Stevens. Colleen also bestowed infectious kisses on Antonia and her brother Mark...
...party was the idea of Antonia's father, Dr. Charles Stevens, who firmly believes that the way to protect his daughters against the danger of having stillborn or malformed children as a result of German measles (rubella) infection early in pregnancy (TIME, Dec. 31) is to make sure they catch the disease long before they are married. So far the virus has not been grown well enough to prepare a vaccine, so the only way a girl can get a case -and lifelong immunity-is from direct exposure to another victim. If Antonia catches it, incubation will take...
Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 29, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 36, heir apparent to his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: twins, their second son and second daughter; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Names: Jean Felix Marie Guillaume, Margaretha Antonia Marie Felicite. Weight: each...