Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held the telephone several inches from his ear. A Russian-it sounded as if the caller were being flayed with a dull cabbage scraper-was on the other end of the line. The Russian was speaking from Reed Farm, a 70-acre estate operated by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of famed Russian Author Leo Tolstoy. A woman, the Russian cried, had been stolen...
Left by Washington's Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson: to seven newsmen, her newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald (see PRESS) ; to her daughter, Countess Felicia Gizycka, virtually all her personal belongings, an estate on Long Island, an estate in North Dakota, a $25,-000 annual income; to Mrs. Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate...
Married. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 28, television equipment merchant, who accompanied his father on the 1947 Antarctic expedition; and Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 28, daughter of Massachusetts' senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; in Dover, Mass...
...Loved One. He shows that he is ready to do so when he brushes the letter of the law aside and sympathetically permits a Portuguese captain to communicate with "the enemy" (the captain's beloved daughter, who lives in Germany). But it is Scobie's own wife, Louise, who gnaws the hole that is destined to grow into "an enormous breach [in] ... his integrity." Fever-racked, miserable Louise knows too well that though her husband may once have loved her, he feels nothing for her now but pity. And since "it had always been his responsibility to maintain...
Married. Whitelaw Reid, 34, vice president and third-generation editor of the family-owned New York Herald Tribune; and Joan Brandon, 18, Barnard College student, daughter of the Tribune's youth page editor; in Purchase...