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FIVE YEARS AGO, The New York Post ran a story under the headline, "Jackie's Aunt Told: Clean Up Mansion." The Post reported that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt and cousin were living "in a garbage-ridden, filthy 28-room house with eight cats, fleas, cobwebs, and no running water" and faced eviction by the Suffolk County Health Department...
...going somewhere else, if you don't mind.' " Thus read the March 17, 1926 entry from the diary of Dr. Robert H. Goddard, an obscure physics professor and engineer. The day before, Goddard had launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from a field on his Aunt Effie's farm near Auburn, Mass. The 2½ sec. flight carried the rocket to a height of only 41 ft. and a speed of 60 m.p.h. But it convinced Goddard that the science of rocketry would one day land a man on the moon...
...Beale and Edie are respectively the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Onassis, and so a certain notoriety has attached itself to their situation. The town fathers of East Hampton tried to have them evicted from Grey Gardens on the grounds-richly demonstrated in the film - that the house is a menace to health. The Beales fought a well-publicized battle and stayed, although this fight is not the subject of the film. It is difficult to ascertain what the subject of the film really is, or the reason it was made. The Maysles brothers have al ways been inveterate...
...Angeles-born U.S. citizen when she went to Japan in 1941 to visit a sick aunt. She was trapped in the war, and as a virtual P.O.W., she claims, was forced to make several of the 340 U.S.-monitored broadcasts. Her on-the-air nickname was "Orphan Ann." A 1946 U.S. Army legal memo acknowledged that there was no evidence that she had ever addressed treasonous remarks to specific American units. She never renounced her American citizen ship and, as a result, was convicted in San Francisco in 1949 on one count of treason. She thus lost her citizenship, spent...
Dozens of Virginia's letters were scribbled beside deathbeds. During the span of this volume, a cousin, an uncle, her mother, her stepsister, her father, her older brother and an aunt all died. She was reticent about the pain of these losses but characteristically scornful of the conventional pieties surrounding them. "The relations swarm," she wrote as her father lay dying. "Three mornings have I spent having my hand held, and my emotions pumped out of me, quite unsuccessfully...