Word: clan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Married. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, multimillionaire scion of the Singer Sewing Machine clan; and Alicja Darr (nee Kopczynska) Purdom, 30, Polish-born painter once stormily married to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom; he for the sixth time (in 20 years), she for the second; in Cooperstown...
...seemed to rock and reel"). These scratched words were the first of what was to become one of the great avalanches of words in U.S. history. The schoolteacher was John Adams, who became the U.S.'s first Vice President, its second President, and the patriarch of a remarkable clan of statesmen and historians that ranged from his son, John Quincy Adams the sixth President, to Charles Francis Adams,* Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. In his diary, an autobiography and letters by the hundreds, John Adams chronicled his career, set the firm pattern for his descendants of making...
...confusion, Critic Mannes asked, "Why is The Clan worth two hours of valuable air time?" No one knew, and nobody thought of asking her why she had agreed to discuss The Clan in the first place. And so the program lurched toward the murky end. Gleason: "I'm loaded." Lemmon: "I know that." Mannes: "I feel like a deaf mute in a field of hog callers." Joe E. Lewis: "Out of the mouths of babes very often comes-oatmeal...
There are other signs that Natalie has arrived. Her first marriage, to Actor Robert ("R. J.") Wagner, is on the rocks. She is running with The Clan, undergoing psychoanalysis, and reading Freud. And she is enmeshed in one of the most complicated problems in romantic geometry in Hollywood's long history. In the current quadrangle (the old eternal triangle is from squaresville), Natalie's most attentive admirer is Warren Beatty, her leading man in Splendor, who was long the fiance of Britain's Joan Collins. Joan, in turn, is the current inamorata of Wagner, who is also...
Died. Nathan Straus, 72, civic-minded scion of a New York mercantile clan which built its fortunes on Macy's and Abraham & Straus, a sometime journalist (Puck, the old New York Globe) and first administrator (1937-42) of the U.S. Housing Authority; in Massapequa...