Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being brightly colored. Ziegfeld liked to tear off to Palm Beach to play roulette. He won or lost $50,000 at a sitting, would say "Go away, dear," when "I tiptoed in to plead with him in whispers." He insisted on traveling in private railroad cars, and when their daughter Patty was six, Ziegfeld bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs, two bears, six ponies, a herd of deer and several cockatoos). This exotic domesticity was frequently punctuated by Mrs. Ziegfeld's magnificent tantrums, because Flo could...
...Duce, was temporarily unhappy in Forio, near Naples, where she was living in a cold-water flat with her two youngest, Anna Maria and Romano. According to Luigi Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would be dandy: she "would find no difficulty in making...
...Peter Kurd's open-air portrait of his daughter Carol glowed with paternal warmth and offered a modern object lesson in the egg-tempera technique of the Renaissance masters...
...reaction, and a furious tug of war between claimants to the $16,500,000 Patterson estate. When the news reached Washington over the A.P., Times-Herald executives moved fast. The seven who had inherited the paper already faced a fight for it; Countess Felicia Gizycka, Mrs. Patterson's daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal papers might contain vital evidence...
Born. To Winthrop Rockefeller, 36, oilman grandson of the late John D., and Barbara Paul Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 32, blonde daughter of a coal miner, whose marriage to "America's most eligible bachelor" last Valentine's Day was the tabloid romance of the year: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Winthrop Paul. Weight...