Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and son of the late Robert Worth Bingham, onetime ambassador to Great Britain...
Shirley Anne took the head of the statue out of the ashcan. Only its nose had been dented. She pressed her lips affectionately against it. Then she ran shrilling into the house: "Mom, the statue cried. I kissed it and it cried." Viola Martin knew her daughter to be a perfectly normal girl, neither withdrawn nor possessed, but sufficiently imaginative to be pecking out on a typewriter a "book" she called "The Haunted House." Mrs. Martin decided to say nothing. "Nobody would have believed...
...literally sizzled. The loser was to have his head chopped off. Thi-gya-min won, but his rival's severed head might not be defiled by touching the ground, so seven divine maidens took turns passing it from one to the other. Every time the head reached another daughter, a New Year began. Since the angry god's head was red-hot, it had to be cooled by water. Now, while the Burmese symbolically repeat the old ceremony, the victorious god is believed to come to earth to look things over...
...grown up" to its responsibilities for world leadership, and needs more intellectual cod-liver oil. Publisher Ascoli is prepared to invest in The Reporter $1,500,000 of his own fortune and that of his wife, Marion, daughter of Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck...
Married. Helen ("Helenita") Kleberg, 21, blonde daughter of Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' huge, fabulous King Ranch (976,000 acres, 390 oil wells, 3,000 horses, including Derby Winner Assault); and Dr. John Deaver Alexander, 25, staff physician at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; in Kingsville...