Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...active interests, found it difficult to manage a household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy Page Mercer, 22, the daughter of a socially impeccable Maryland family that had lately fallen on hard times. To Roosevelt, then 31, Lucy Mercer became far more than a mere employee. In fact, says a World War II aide of the late President, F.D.R. and Lucy began a romance that was to span 30 years...
Born. To Burt Ward, 21, who plays Batman's teen-age sidekick, Robin, on TV, and Bonney Ward, 20, his wife of a year: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
Born. To Princess Alexandra, 29, first cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 37, Scottish businessman: their second child, first daughter, who takes her place as 17th in line to the throne; in Richmond Park, England...
Divorced. By France Nuyen, 27, French-born Eurasian actress (The World of Suzie Wong): Dr. Thomas Caspar Morell, 33, Manhattan psychiatrist who, La Belle France claimed, "knew how to ignore and destroy a woman's ego"; after three years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...sick-comic school; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Hollywood. Son of an "exotic dancer," trained as a burlesque comedian. Bruce was never in tune with this world, and he soured totally in the 1950s after his beautiful blonde wife became a drug addict, leaving him with an infant daughter. From Manhattan to Hollywood, he viewed life as a four-letter word and, with gestures, commented blackly on it, never lacking for listeners and finding some curious champions (among them: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Poet Robert Lowell). His path led ever lower after a Manhattan criminal court, in 1964, convicted...