Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beauteous Nancy Fletcher Choremi, 27, daughter of a U.S. career diplomat, arrested last July as a $100-a-night Manhattan call girl (and convicted on evidence obtained by wire-tapping), was let off with a three-month suspended sentence. Said the judge: "The problem of prostitution is not solved in a criminal court. It is a social, economic and moral problem...
...thought that, in justice, her scholarly husband should be considered at least as important as his sister, back home in Rumania. "We could tell a lot if we wanted to," she said. Her husband silenced her. But old Zvi's brown eyes flashed at the mention of his daughter. He sat up eagerly, his stocking feet dangling above the floor. "She was a very intelligent girl," he said. "I brought her up in the strictest Orthodox...
...Spain's Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria (now living in France), a miner's daughter and a miner's wife, whose Communism rose from the pits. She grew up amid strikes, riots, unemployment, sudden death. She has two children whom she mentioned in her fiery Civil War speeches urging Spain's women to put the cause above husbands and children ("it is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
...meet celebrities. Ruggedly built (6 ft. 1½in., 215 lbs.) for a rugged 16-hour-a-day job, he is hearty and likable, though newsmen wince when he calls them "buddy-boy." (He calls Gable "Clarkie.") Once he proudly noted in his column that his seven-year-old daughter has a standard answer to kids who ask what her father does: "He writes the best damn column in town, and if I don't say so, they twist...
...Henry Morgan, who has bitten one sensitive sponsor after another, thus far has neither radio nor television plans. Says Morgan: "Nobody's asked me," New hopefuls this season include Commentator Eleanor Roosevelt (assisted by daughter Anna Boettiger); The Railroad Hour (operettas with Gordon MacCrae); The Little Immigrant, described as "situation comedy with an underlying pathos." Cecil B. DeMille hopes to back with an hour-long dramatic show...