Word: daughter-in-law
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...prove that Jesse James was not really J. Frank Dalton, a Missouri storyteller who died in 1951 at the self-avowed age of 107, still protesting his-well, guilt. Such was the offer made by the owner of a Jesse James museum in Stanton, Mo. Jesse's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Stella James, 85, took the museum man to court with her contention-supported by most historians-that the real bandit was gunned down in 1882. Last week she made a clean getaway with...
...many ladies' luncheons bemoaning the sudden threatened obsolescense of her friends' wardrobes and her own. In one week, the organization's membership grew from 19 to 1,000 (among them, Actresses Lizabeth Scott and Connie Stevens, Mrs. Harold Robbins and Barbara Mutton's daughter-in-law, Cheryl Reventlow). Dues of $20 a year were established, mainly to cover costs of petitions and bumper stickers like the one already being printed in shocking pink and shocking language: UP YOUR MIDI. "We're not going to let them pull the wool over our legs as well...
...intends to photograph O'Neill's Hotel with pitiless clarity on the occasion of Mrs. Sinnott's 92nd birthday party. She wants to bring out all the unfuzzy truth about present and past, including why, almost 30 years before, Mrs. Sinnott's daughter and daughter-in-law had fled the hotel after an earlier birthday party...
...newspaper ads to denounce the mayor. Ralph Perk, the Republican county auditor, seemed a candidate well equipped to benefit from Stokes' color and the old-country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent. He did not openly court racist sentiment, but did concentrate on white audiences in the ethnic enclaves. Perk, said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, seemed to be campaigning for mayor of Prague or Warsaw. His tactics nearly worked. Stokes' victory was narrow, 3,700 votes...
...bizarre as it was mystifying. The younger Saikin testified that the trouble began in the spring of 1967, when he brought the girl, whom he planned to marry, down to the farm to meet his family. At first, he said, his fa ther loved Ella Jean "like a daughter-in-law." Later, the elder Saikin developed a different kind of affection for the pret ty but not too bright girl, who had man aged to cram a lot of living into her short life. Before the end of the sum mer, the father was escorting Ella Jean to her room...