Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullfighters and fast cars shocked Madrid society), Juan Carlos skipped his usual summer of water skiing on Lake Lausanne. Instead, he appeared as the guest of King Paul of Greece for a month of boating off the Greek Isle of Corfu. His shipmate: King Paul's eldest daughter, Sophie, a 22-year-old blonde known in Europe's tabloids as "The Princess of the Sad Eyes...
Maria Beale Fletcher, 19, stage-struck daughter of a pair of professional dancers from Asheville, N.C.. found herself Miss America of 1962. A sleek (35-24-35) veteran of the Rockette line at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the hazel-eyed brunette so impressed bumptious Contest Judge (and Broadway Producer) David Merrick that before the Atlantic City finals, he planned to offer her the understudy lead in a forthcoming musical. Among the new Miss America's projected rounds: an overseas tour to display "an example of what our youth is like other than the juvenile delinquents...
Perhaps the happiest of Stanford's new captives is Yale's Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights wrestling with juvenile homework. The nights were worse than the days. When Daughter Sally bogged down in percentages, Papa Begle blew up. Sally's math book explained percentages three ways without touching on the common principle. "It was dull, terrible, uninteresting," growls Begle. "It was so revolting that I had to do something...
...sister of Press Subscriber John Golubic, a retired railroad baggageman. Andrica's mission was only partly successful. He arrived at Pavla Miskina Ulica i only to find that Golubic's 75-year-old sister had gone to the country to help some relatives harvest hay. But her daughter, Mrs. Antonia Ivkovich, was home; she and Andrica had a long and sentimental talk -in Croatian. Then Andrica said, "Dovidjenja" ("Goodbye"), and pressed on to Plitvice, the place of waterfalls, where relatives of other Clevelanders dwell...
Tutors & Masters. The daughter of a Portuguese economist who died when she was two, Maria Vieira da Silva was raised by her mother and an uncle, who provided her with a string of tutors and encouraged her to become an artist. "They were like children who had a doll that could be taught tricks," she remembers. She began studying drawing and painting in earnest at the age of eleven, took up sculpture at 16, moved to Paris at 19. There she studied under masters: Sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Painter Fernand Léger, Engraver Stanley Hayter...