Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pledged Daughter. Bombay rivals Tokyo as the world's queen city of vice. Its wide-open red-light district runs for block after block through the center of town, and heavily mascaraed male and female prostitutes try to entice passers by into their "cages"-narrow stalls with wooden barred doors and a single bed. The cage dwellers charge only 42? per customer, but there are also upper-class brothels where Anglo-Indian girls receive patrons in high-ceilinged boudoirs with brilliant red curtains. Many of Bombay's estimated 70,000 whores are Devadasis, who practice prostitution...
Long Drinks. Fuller was married in 1917-he was 22-to dark and beautiful Anne Hewlett, daughter of a prominent New York architect. In World War I, Bucky, despite his bad eyes, enlisted in the Navy as a chief boatswain, showed such promise that he was sent to the Naval Academy and commissioned an ensign. Studying logistics, ballistics, navigation and early naval aviation, he suddenly found himself in a world rapidly moving from "the wire to the wireless, the track to the trackless, the visible to the invisible, where more and more could be done with less and less...
...troubles piled up. His daughter Alexandra sickened and died when she was four. For the next five years, Fuller worked out of Chicago for a company set up to market a building material invented by his father-in-law. They actually put up 240 houses, and Bucky learned a lot about building, but he was a hopelessly poor executive and as much of a fool about money as he had been at Harvard-living wildly beyond his means and rapidly laocoönizing himself in debts and superdebts. He was also hitting the bottle. "The minute I was through work...
Messiah of Ideas. After the Marshall Field show, Fuller moved himself, his model house, and his wife and daughter back East. For about a year they stayed with Anne's family at Hewlett, L.I., and the Hewlett tribe still talks about the alarums and excursions that centered around Bucky and his one-man-band personality. He might insist that the occasion called for an operetta, and no one would be allowed to leave until he had composed the words and music and performed...
Born. To Herbert von Karajan, 55, maestro of the Berlin Philharmonic, and French-born Eliette Mouret von Karajan, 28: their second child, second daughter; in St. Moritz, Switzerland...