Word: daughterly
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...committed, yet the girls' ID bands somehow got misplaced. Hospital records show that at 6 a.m., Callie weighed more than Rebecca. After 8:30 a.m., the results were reversed. That no medical personnel noticed could mean legal trouble for the hospital. Now relatives are fighting over Rebecca, the biological daughter of Paula Johnson. Rebecca's two sets of grandparents were supposed to raise her jointly after the couple who had reared her died in a July car crash. But one set of grandparents now wants sole custody...
...brink. Recently Jagger was spotted emerging from the home of an ex-mistress, model Carla Bruni, and last week tabloid headlines shrieked the news that a Brazilian model is carrying Jagger's baby (the woman denies the rumor). Jagger is also reportedly irked by his 14-year-old daughter's new modeling career, which Hall supports. Perhaps he's worried she'll have to fend off aging rock stars...
When he died some weeks ago, of leukemia at age 77, I didn't say much either--just bowed my head. I went over to see his wife Jane, and again said little. I asked John's daughter Frances if I might have a picture of him, so that I could recall his tight, sweet-tempered face. She gave me the choice of the dashing John as a fighter pilot in World War II, the one with the goggles dangling from his neck, or the older John I knew, who sold real estate. I took the more recent shot...
...that Jamie Lee Curtis, movie-star daughter of Tony. Unlike most celebrities' children's books, however, hers shows not only fondness for children and familiarity with English but also a willingness to go a little nuts. It's a song-and-dance romp through the many moods of an extroverted young lass, all done in rhyme. Because being amused by children's mercurial natures is actually an adult pursuit, parents may enjoy reading this book more than their offspring...
...more or less know the Estee Lauder story because it's a chapter from the book of American business folklore. In short, Josephine Esther Mentzer, daughter of immigrants, lived above her father's hardware store in Corona, a section of Queens in New York City. She started her enterprise by selling skin creams concocted by her uncle, a chemist, in beauty shops, beach clubs and resorts...