Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot has the simplicity of a short short story. A Southern mother (Maureen Stapleton) long since deserted by her husband, and subsisting on delusions of genteel grandeur, wants to secure a suitable suitor for her slightly crippled daughter (Piper Laurie) who has withdrawn into the reverie world of her collection of tiny glass animals. The restive son of the house (George Grizzard) brings home a "gentleman caller" (Pat Hingle) who arouses the girl's interest and then, guiltlessly, inadvertently, breaks her pet unicorn and -by revealing that he is already engaged-her heart...
...daughter should be fragile, but Piper Laurie is invulnerable, too blooming healthy by half. The acting task is noticeably beyond her when she tries to convey an unanticipated breath of life with cocktail-party animation. As for the son, he should be as insubstantial as glass, a dreamer caught between his mother's mirage of the past and his own dream of the future, but there is more petulance than poetry in George Grizzard's steely eye and shifty stance...
...that it is as if a graveyard of mediocrity had abruptly kicked off its tombstones with a sudden ineluctable rush of life. Perhaps it is moving precisely because it is a play of the spirit that moves from death toward life. The mother is throttled by her illusions, the daughter is felled by the brute strength of the world, and the gentleman caller founders in the anonymous quicksand of being average. But the son Tom, the writer-to-be in this distinctly autobiographical play, is about to be born to his vocation and to the appalling and enthralling adventure...
Born. To Jack Nicklaus, 25, golfing great, last year's leading P.G.A. money winner ($113,284) and this year's Masters champ, and Barbara Jean Bash Nicklaus, 25: their third child, first daughter; in Columbus...
Died. Eileen Keliher Jeffers Yager, 61, shy, retiring adopted daughter of William M. Jeffers, onetime president (1937-1946) and prime mover of the Union Pacific Railroad, chief beneficiary of his relatively modest (about $500,000) estate on his death in 1953; three days after she was wed (for the first time) to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Yager, 47, apparently of drowning after she fell overboard from their chartered 36-ft. honeymoon yacht Carefree, in the channel between Catalina Island and the California coast, while her husband was below decks...