Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come along, the duke I love," Nancy Mitford's sister Deborah, now Duchess of Devonshire, once prophetically crooned). Especially guilty, says Hall, are American women, who represent "the most substantial marital hazard." Says Statustician Hall: "They are just that much more unstable than, say, a clergyman's daughter. Some 43% of second and third marriages by English peers to American women have so far broken up. Let's face it, if a peer marries an American, he's on to a loser...
Miss Britain quit to ban the bomb and Miss U.S.A. wailed: "My mouth is actually sore from smiling." But the smiles were just beginning for the grocer's daughter from Argentina, who proved to have the most universal appeal at the contest in Miami: Norma Beatriz Nolan, Miss Universe of 1962, a rare blend of Irish, Italian and Spanish, statistically 24, 5 ft. 6 in., 120 lbs. and 35-25-36. The perquisites of office are $15,000 cash and a $7,000 mink coat; the duties include promotional tours of Portugal, Korea, Canada, Mexico and all points south...
Plenty of Gasoline. It is a life Ceezee's mother could scarcely have envisioned for any daughter of hers when she made her own debut at 17-into show business. The daughter of a New York voice coach. Vivian Wessell began with a small part in a Lehar operetta, and ended her theatrical career some five years later after she met wealthy, well-born Boston Clubman Alexander Lynde Cochrane...
...family fortune was founded, like many U.S. fortunes, about 100 years ago. Henry Phipps, the mild-mannered, warmhearted son of a shoemaker in Allegheny, Pa., found himself in the steel business with one of his neighbors, a weaver's son named Andrew Carnegie. His daughter Amy, a remarkable woman of good looks and terrifying energy (she was shooting lions in her 60s), went to England and married Captain Frederick Edward Guest, polo-playing first cousin of Winston Churchill (who became godfather to her son Winston) and Secretary of State for Air in Lloyd George's Cabinet...
...Guard, for whom a listing is almost the only way left to know one is better than one's neighbors. Those who are knocking at the Register's door no longer have to contend with the studied inconsistencies of Bertha Eastmond, the train conductor's daughter who presided over the contents of the little black and orange book for nearly 40 years until her death in 1960. But the mysterious tribunal that sits in judgment in her stead is still impossible to outguess-even in terms of getting one's listing switched from...