Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant to watch. Other shows are made palatable by three even riper pomegranates. Inger Stevens, for example, could stand still and smile for 30 minutes and win a higher rating than Joe Valachi pitching for the Dodgers. Unfortunately, she is imprisoned in the script of The Farmer's Daughter (ABC), a comedy series loosely based on the old Loretta Young movie. Diahn Williams is one of Harry's Girls (NBC), a comedy about a dance act that tours Europe. Most preadolescents have traveled enough to wince at the show's gauche international flavorings, and the humor...
With 82% of India's people still living outside the cities and towns, this growth has required an ingenious array of promotional devices to reach the villagers. Agents are trained to sell "life insurance for living" with policies that pay for retirement or for the marriage of a daughter as well as death benefits. The company explains the value of insurance with short feature films, primarily for rural audiences, that have simple plots, amateur talent, and sound tracks in the 13 main Indian languages. Itinerant bards, telling stories and singing insurance commercials, wander from village to village. Everywhere possible...
Born. To Richard (Pancho) Gonzales, 35, recently retired pro-tennis great, coach of the U.S. Davis Cup team, and Madelyn Darrow Gonzales, 28, Miss Rheingold of 1958: a third child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Born. To Jean Kerr, 40, millionairess playwright (Mary, Mary), and Walter Kerr, 50, New York Herald Tribune drama critic: their sixth child, first daughter; in Manhattan...
Died. Anna Evangeline La Chappelle Clark, 85, widow of Montana Copper King William Andrews Clark, a Michigan doctor's daughter who became Clark's ward at the height of his fame, married him in 1901 after his first wife died (he was 62), moved into his $6,000,000 Fifth Avenue mansion (121 rooms, 31 baths), after his death in 1925 (leaving a $50 million estate) sold the house to spend much of her time in California, where she founded the Paganini Quartet and equipped it with Paganini's own Stradivariuses at a cost...