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...born in 1921 in Manhattan. Her parents, Car Salesman Kenneth Robbins and Actress Edith ("Lucky") Luckett, split up the same year. Edith felt she had to go on the road to earn a living, so the toddler was deposited just outside Washington, in Bethesda, Md., to live with her Aunt Virginia's family. In 1929, Edith was married for the second time, to a Chicagoan named Loyal Davis, and reclaimed her seven-year-old child...
...young man had a better time of it at turn-of-the-century Cambridge. Forster left King's College with middling degrees in classics and history and with the reluctant realization, after four stimulating years of intellectual fellowship, that he was homosexual. A legacy from a deceased aunt made job hunting unnecessary, which probably spared the world some comic encounters. For Forster at that period seemed qualified to do nothing but stumble and dream...
Crocket writes up tragedies every day, stories about Chuckie, an 8-year-old autistic foster child, or 8-year-old David, whose penniless aunt rescued him from his mentally ill mother who threw dishes and chairs at him and his three sisters, or about 6-year-old Peter from a rundown public housing project who wrote to Globe Santa asking that his 4-year-old sister Martha get some dolls to play with...
...postcards demand the immediate release of three political prisoners in the Phillipines, South Africa, and the Soviet Union, including journalist Mila D. Aguilar, the aunt's of Eric A. San Juan '88, said HRAI member Astrid Guttman '87. San Juan has been working with his family to secure his aunt's release, according to a report in The Crimson last month...
...There is Mila Aguilar, literary scholar and activist in the Phillipines, who was arrested ostensibly for "subversion." Through this charge was later changed to possession of subversive documents for which she was allowed to post bail, she was not released, but rather kept in solitary confinement. She is the aunt of Eric Aguilar San Juan...