Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Battenberg [TIME, June 22] describes Alfonso XIII's English widow, Queen Victoria Eugenia, as the "last surviving granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria." There are at least two other granddaughters of Britain's Queen Victoria still very much alive-namely: Lady Patricia Ramsay (daughter of Victoria's third son Arthur, Duke of Connaught) and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (daughter of Victoria's fourth son Leopold, Duke of Albany...
...Reader Gable's list is partially correct. There is a fourth granddaughter still living, Princess Beatrice, daughter of Victoria's second son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who is married to Don Alfonso, Infante of Spain and Duke of Galliera, and lives in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain...
Betty S., daughter of a Manhattan TV writer, was stricken before her fourth birthday. What began as a sore throat and pain in the ankles soon developed into a full-blown case of Still's disease-he name given to rheumatoid arthritis when it attacks children. Betty was sent to a hospital for intensive care of her swollen joints. Main item in her treatment was heavy dosage with hormones of the cortisone family, which relieved her pain and kept her joints reasonably flexible. But Still's disease weakens a child's bones and hampers growth; ironically, cortisone...
Jacob's sore temptation is Wanda, the daughter of his master. She is intelligent and well formed. But by both Jewish and Christian custom of the times, marriage of Jew and Gentile must be punished at least by ostracism, probably by death. Jacob is ransomed and eventually wanders to Lublin, but finds no comfort among the city's Jews, who seem to have forgotten the Cossack massacres. They have grown fat. "All this flesh was dressed in velvet, silk and sables. They were so heavy they wheezed; their eyes shone greedily. They spoke an only half comprehensible language...
Through a Glass Darkly. A brilliant analysis of four lives-a father, his son, daughter and son-in-law-by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman...