Word: clan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skiing a few times before. It certainly doesn't help to have your five-year-old boy riding along behind on the shoulders of your ski instructor and yelling: "Watch out, you might fall! Watch out, you might fall!" Still, Jacqueline Kennedy stood up very well during the clan's winter ski outing, and it may not be too long before she starts riding up to the expert slopes with Bobby and Ethel. John-John was doing fine at lessons with his sister Caroline on the beginners' run, although he much preferred just sliding down...
...Ford clan turned up in strength, and the whole thing could not have been more urbane. Mother Anne Mc Donnell Ford arrived on the arm of her current escort, Ted Bassett, a kind of all-purpose man about town who posed for photographers between Christina and Henry. Uzielli's parents, also divorced, were there too. Mama was wearing a Balenciaga, and Papa, who works with Gianni at stockbroking, was squiring his second wife. At evening's close, as the last of the Piper Heidsieck '59 bubbled away, Henry pronounced himself well pleased. "Great party, eh?" he inquired...
Alice Sycamore (Rosemary Harris) that her native clan is prodigiously eccentric until Tony Kirby (Clayton Corzatte) of the Wall Street Kirbys proposes to her. The Kirby family crest is the stuffed shirt, but it is lofted in surrender to the free-souled Sycamores after a hilariously impromptu dinner and an even more impromptu night in jail...
...Davis is short (5 ft. 5 in.), nervous, the color of bittersweet chocolate; leggy, lissome May Britt could be no blonder, remains serene no matter how large the crisis. Somehow the marriage worked. The Davises had one child, adopted a second, then a third. He pulled away from the Clan, hasn't appeared with them since the filming of Robin and the 7 Hoods in 1964. The drinking went down, the smoking went from three packs of cigarettes a day to one, and to complete the change, he tried something new-acting...
...while his retreat from the brink of embarrassment will be warmly remembered as an act of high courage. Outside the Senate, which is not likely to confine Teddy Kennedy's ambitions indefinitely, the Morrissey affair may be remembered as a negative entry in the record book of a clan that made great capital of the pursuit of excellence...