Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jaunty and rakish despite some uncharacteristic makeup (for one of his rare TV appearances in a filmed mellerdrama), veteran Hoofer Fred Astaire, 60, shared a grin on the set with misty-eyed Daughter Ava (she pronounces it Ah-va), 16, who with Daddy's encouragement studies drama at her tony Hollywood finishing school, does her lab work in local amateur theatricals...
Born. To Maria Tallchief, 33, prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet company, Oklahoma-born daughter of an Osage Indian, onetime wife (No. 4) of Choreographer George Balanchine, and Chicago Construction Executive Henry ("Buzz") Paschen Jr., 32, her third husband: a daughter, their first child (he has another daughter by an earlier marriage); in Chicago. Name: Elise...
...Bologna left Castel-grande in Italy's southern Apennines, began shining shoes in Manhattan, where bootblacks worked a 15-hr. day and the top ones earned $4 a week. By 1902 Joe had returned to Italy, married, and was back in New York living with his wife and daughter in a $7-a-month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents, utility magnates and numberless clerks. One customer was young Lawyer Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Another was a partner in a brokerage firm, who introduced Joe's savings...
Oklahoma-born, Ruby Hart went to Cuba in 1923 as a Spanish-speaking stenographer, met and married James Doyle Phillips, another Stateside immigrant and proprietor of a modest printing and translating office. (Their daughter Marta is now a dancer in Madrid.) In 1931, with insurgent winds blowing all over Cuba, the Times took Phillips on as its Havana correspondent, and Ruby became his legman. When he was killed in an auto accident in 1937, Ruby took over his job. She has reigned since as the only resident U.S. newspaper correspondent in Cuba (although U.P.I, and A.P. maintain one-man bureaus...
...conquests, emotions half understood and alternatives wholly missed. Unlike choleric, Mom-baiting Philip Wylie, Author Connell sees the Mom of his first novel as a saccharine, easily swayed and sympathetic character. Far from monstrously dominating her husband and three children, Mrs. Bridge is so tame and timid that her daughter Carolyn says coldly: "Listen, Mother, no man is ever going to push me around the way Daddy pushed you around...