Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baylor University he met Nancy Aynesworth, daughter of a prominent Waco, Texas, physician. They were married in 1933 during Mann's senior year at Baylor Law School and went to Laredo, where Tom went into practice with his father and brothers for $100 a month. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Tom drove 150 miles to Corpus Christi to join the Navy. When he took his physical exam, he found he couldn't even read the largest E on the eye chart. "I had read so much in preparing those appellate cases," he says, "that I had a muscle...
...good birthday present," said his longtime secretary-companion, Alan Searle. But it was hardly that. After a 21-month fight to disinherit his daughter, Lady John Hope, in favor of Searle, W. Somerset Maugham admitted that "all differences have been settled." They seem to have been settled in her favor. In addition to $280,000 cash for some already-sold paintings, the agreement grants her royalties from some Maugham books as well as majority interest in his $1,000,000 villa on the French Riviera. Estimated value of the package: $1,400,000. Deaf, partially blinded by cataracts, and plagued...
...Ethan Allen, 14: the men's national figure skating championship, at Cleveland. Youngest skater ever to win, Allen recovered from a near-disastrous slip in the free skating to defeat Pennsylvanian Tommy Litz, last year's champion. The women's champion: freckle-faced Peggy Fleming, 15, daughter of a pressman on the Los Angeles Times. Said Peggy's proud mother: "It wasn't a surprise to us. It was a complete shock...
...report the use of Saran Wrap as a male contraceptive, but such improvisation seems hardly necessary, since birth control devices of all kinds are sold freely, often at supermarkets. Parents have been known to buy diaphragms for their daughters (although in Cleveland recently, a woman was arrested for giving birth control information to her delinquent daughter...
Married. Richard Boiling, 47, newly divorced Democratic Congressman from Kansas City; and Jim Grant Akin, 35, blonde congressional lobbyist for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, daughter of a well-heeled Texas oilman and, until her divorce fortnight ago, wife of yet another; both for the second time; in Silver Spring...