Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sure enough, Daisy turns out to be the reincarnation of one Melinda Moncrief, the daughter of an 18th century parvenu. Soon we have flashed back to the world of manor houses and wide green lawns, and the gayness which ensues virtually welcomes Mr. Lerner back to his element. Meanwhile Mark, the dashing young shrink, falls in love with Daisy as Melinda (the girl has changed her accent, remember?). Daisy discovers that Mark has fallen for her 18th century model and runs away in tears of frustration. Mark catches her at the airport where she miraculously reintegrates the various centuries...
...peak of ecstasy in the Kingdom of Peace came in 1949, when the evangelist made public his marriage to Edna Rose Ritchings, the comely 21-year-old daughter of a white Vancouver florist, his "Spotless Virgin Bride." The original Mother Divine, a Negro, had died six years earlier; her spirit, Father Divine explained, had passed into Rose's shapely form...
...Congressmen's children filling up summer Government jobs that might have gone to needy teenagers, Wisconsin's Senator Bill Proxmire, 49, did the simplest thing, wrote out checks totaling $1,806.80 as an "unconditional gift" to the U.S. Treasury to repay the wages his son and step-daughter made for two summers in their vacation jobs with the Post Office, Navy, and National Park Service. As for the kids, they got to keep their money "because they earned it." Besides, added the Senator ruefully, "if you know teenagers, they don't give back money anyway...
Schweitzer clearly intended Lambarene to be his monument, and just before he died happily supervised the completion of a new ward. But soon after his burial, Schweitzer's daughter, Rhena Eckert, as much as admitted that the hospital might have a hard time surviving. "We will try to carry on his work," she told reporters, "but Lambarene as a spiritual center is irrevocably gone." In time, the Gabonese villagers may come to prefer the gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried...
Born. To Maury Wills, 32, base-stealing Dodger shortstop (84 as of last week), and Gertrude Elliot Wills, 31: their sixth child, fourth daughter; in Spokane, Wash...