Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addressing a Saturday night rally of campaign workers, the candidate could not resist a word of praise for his daughter. "Valerie," he said, "is my best precinct worker." Charles Harting Percy was not simply indulging his paternal pride. In his hard-hitting campaign to unseat Illinois' three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, comely, honey-haired Valerie Percy, 21, a June graduate of Cornell, proved one of Chuck Percy's doughtiest aides. With sunny enthusiasm that made the task seem effortless, she recruited and coordinated hundreds of youthful Percy-for-Senator volunteers, helped set up 22 campaign centers...
...woman, which was bound to cause trouble among the natives. Quietly, Whitehall asked the couple to live out of sight in England. Politely they refused-and when they insisted on going home, the government banished them from Bechuanaland until 1956 when they and their children (now three sons, one daughter) were finally allowed to return. Britain may have long since swallowed its prejudice, but it took until last week to show its pride when Queen Elizabeth knighted Prime Minister (since March 1965) Khama, 45, as Commander of the Order of the British Empire. None too soon. On Sept. 30, Bechuanaland...
With gracious manners, in a spacious drawing room, a fiftyish couple are leading an embalmer's parody of life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...
Married. Wendy Marcus, 27, younger daughter of Nieman-Marcus President Stanley Marcus, a press aide assigned to Lynda and Luci through...
...during) takes, he is horse-shy, allergic to sagebrush, and as rugged as Mr. Peepers. But the sight gags are inventive, and the dialogue is literate. The only other situation comedy worth a twirl is That Girl (ABC), a sort of My Sister Eileen, starring Danny Thomas' saucy daughter Mario. She is much snappier than her material, and at 26 is unmistakably a hot new talent...