Word: companioner
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MARRIED. Tammy Wynette, 36, heartbreak queen of country-and-western music; and George Richey, 42, her business manager and constant traveling companion; she for the fifth time, he for the third; on the beach behind her Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony, Fla., home...
...more unselfish helper was Celeste Albaret, Proust's companion and housekeeper from 1913 until his death in 1922. In her late 50s, when Curtiss met her, Celeste and her husband, Odilon, who had been Proust's chauffeur, were running a dreary, working-class hotel on the Left Bank. Mme. Albaret's memory was a library in itself; she seemed to have cross-filed and indexed everything Proust had done or said. At one point, she told Curtiss, the master had been thrilled by a letter from a "M. Henri Jammes." Jammes -Henry James-had written that...
...happy King and Alia had a prince and princess of their own and adopted a baby girl orphaned by an airplane crash. When Alia was killed returning from a flying tour to a Jordanian hospital, Hussein tearfully announced the death of "my precious companion." Before long, though, his name began to be linked with those of other women...
...1960s. "That age was a bit early for me, so I didn't really know how to dress for this," confesses Mark Kaplan, 23, out of Atlanta, who adds that a more knowledgeable friend lent him the striped Indian cotton shirt he is wearing. A lady companion confesses further: "We're really just waiting for the tennis court we've reserved...
...concerts, Bergen greets well-wishers backstage; about 5,000 fans are on her mailing list for concert information; 4,300 requested tickets for this concert. "God bless you," some tell her. "See you next time," she replies. Then she heads back to New Jersey with her nurse, full-time companion and chauffeur...