Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago all The Netherlands was thrown into an uproar by the disclosure (TIME, June 25, 1956 et seq.) that Queen Juliana had called upon a lady faith healer to restore the sight of her fourth daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Marijke). There was talk of the faith healer's insidious influence over the Queen; there were even reports that Juliana and her consort. Prince Bernhard, were so divided on the princess' care that they were considering divorce. But the Queen banished the healer, the furor subsided, and, acting on the advice of physicians, the royal couple decided...
...origins of the show had one museum director crying that it was a "public-relations hoax." Sponsor of the show is Kansas City's Joyce C. Hall, president of Hallmark Cards, Inc., which has used Churchill paintings for its greeting cards. Hall first approached Churchill through his actress daughter Sarah (who has been sponsored on TV by Hallmark). Churchill refused. Then Hall went to England armed with a letter from Painter Dwight Eisenhower urging Churchill to permit a U.S. exhibition. Sir Winston thought it over, sent Hall a one-word cable: "Okay...
...think about the only time that I ever acted when I was really out of sorts was when I told a music critic where to get off when he said some mean things about my daughter. If I had thought about it a while, I probably wouldn't have done...
...Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered her face with cold cream, put her hair in "irons" and her head...
...down in the middle of it without bearings, the reader at first sees only blurred shapes. An undertaker, in the first of a series of long interior monologues, recognizes Stella, Machek's beautiful youngest daughter. With guilt and confusion, he recalls a day ten months before when Stella, a stranger, climbed in beside him as his empty hearse idled at a stop light, said "Take me to your place.'' Slowly some details emerge: he drove her from the Polish quarter of their New Jersey factory town to a cheap Manhattan hotel, later fled, left her to stare...