Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tracks her down-or rather up-to a hospital in Washington Heights, discovers she belongs to a cheerful, go-getting family of fellow Southerners, signs on as companion to her 16-year-old brother Jamie, who is ill with leukemia, and swings off with the family on a southbound safari that is taking the patient home...
Married. Melina Mercouri, 40, who makes a virtue out of vice (Never on Sunday, Topkapi); and Director Jules Dassin, 54, her constant companion for ten years; both for the second time; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...tended to forget or ignore. His admitted homosexuality got a fresh airing during his celebrated 1963 court fight. He had married Syrie Wellcome and fathered a child, and then was divorced in 1927. Maugham wanted to leave the bulk of his possessions to his secretary and male companion of 36 years. His daughter, Lady Glendevon, took Maugham to court, and after a lot of nasty publicity, he lost the case. Vowing, after The Summing Up, never again to sift through an old man's memories, Maugham changed his mind and published some bickering memoirs that included further recriminations against...
...turning into sugar mommies, raising cane by taking young boy friends. Latest to join in is Actress Jeanne Moreau, 38, who disappeared lately in the south of France with a 23-year-old lad named Theodore Roubanis, only to turn up in Paris last week with a more mature companion, Photographer Cyril Morange, 25. They are now blissfully ensconced in Jeanne's country house, and throughout France the middle-aged men are singing a variation on the old Piaf standard: Oui, je regrette quelquechose...
COLUMBELLA by Phyllis A. Whitney. 306 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Author Whitney, a Staten Island, N.Y., grandmother of 62, fashions her 38th book about Jessica Abbott, an inhibited schoolteacher who goes to the Virgin Islands in a search for adventure. There, she is hired as a tutor and companion for 14-year-old Leila Drew, promptly falls in love with the child's father, Kingdon, and earns the undying hatred of the mother, Catherine. Somebody has to die, and so Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After...