Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...romance had basic troubles right from the start, one of them being L.B.J.'s habit of calling him "Charlie." But for the surprising span of 25 months, in Washington and Acapulco, New York and Hollywood, Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, and Hollywood Climber George Hamilton, 28, were a more or less serious item on the nation's front pages...
...Lynda Bird told a friend, "it's all over." Chin waggers guessed that the rift really opened in July, when vacationing Lynda was left twiddling her toes in London for three weeks while George struggled unsuccessfully to escape from Aristotle Onassis' yacht in the Mediterranean. As Hamilton confirmed all with a "We shall always be friends" statement, Lynda Bird let it be known that she has not been wholly unhappy recently in the company of Marine Captain and White House Aide Charles Robb, 28, her favorite bridge partner and her host at a beach bash in Delaware over...
Right up to the moment that the billowing blue percale veil covering Pablo Picasso's 50-ft. sculpture came tumbling down last week in Chicago, the debate continued. Was it a bird, a woman, an Afghan hound, a Barbary ape, a cruel hoax, a Communist plot, or Superman? Alderman John J. Hoellen introduced a resolution in the city council to replace the work with a statue of Chicago Cubs First Baseman Ernie Banks. And Alderman Thomas Rosenberg countered with a proposal to send a statue of Alderman Hoellen to Paris' redlit Pigalle. Mused the Chicago Sun-Times: "Picasso...
...Hollywood films, a strong-featured Missourian who over the years played mother (to Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart), grandmother (to Shirley Temple, Fabian) and whatever other home-and-hearth character the plot demanded, most notably Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which won her a 1940 Oscar, and the Bird Woman in Mary Pop pins; of a heart attack; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...lone bird flying at midday in search of a rabbit...