Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Family. It seemed time to try another field. Turning to politics, Tshombe put to use his two big assets. One was a jovial, easy charm. The other was his father-in-law; young Moise had married the daughter of Bako Ditende, a prominent chief of the Lunda tribe, later to become Mwata Yamvo Ditende Yawa Nawezi III, supreme ruler of all the Lunda. Ditende's influence helped when Tshombe sought and won a seat on the Elisabethville city council (a tame advisory body under the thumb of the Belgian provincial governor) in 1947, then moved up to the Katanga...
...Good as the Count's. The life of Samuel Henry Kress could have been written by Horatio Alger, except for the fact that Kress never married the boss's daughter. Born in Cherryville. Pa., in 1863, he grew up a bookish boy who at 17 landed a teaching job in Slatington, six miles away. Kress's salary was only $25 a month, but he managed to save up enough money to open a novelty store in Nanticoke. Before long, he had a wholesale house in Wilkes Barre. By the time he died in 1955, there were...
...André Gide while she dances. Persephone's score ranks with Stravinsky's most tautly constructed music-in his best neoclassic style-but as a stage piece, the work has never caught on. Last week in London. Britain's Royal Ballet tried to bring Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, to new life-in an ambitious new version by Chief Choreographer Frederick Ashton...
...never strayed far from the oven door. In 1935 he and his brother-in-law raised $1,500 to buy three little retail bakeries in Chicago. Sixteen years later, with a chain expanded to seven stores and a hot-selling cream-cheese cake named Sara Lee (after his daughter), Lubin decided to set up shop as a wholesale baker. By developing the technique of baking his cakes in an aluminum foil pan. then freezing and shipping them in the same container, he soon had a national business...
Born. To R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 42, ex-mayor of Evansville, Ind., who in 1958 became his state's first Democratic U.S. Senator in 20 years, and Martha Tiernan Hartke, 41, his Indiana University sweetheart: their seventh child, third daughter; in Fairfax...