Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Mrs. Burnice Iverson Geiger played Lady Bountiful to the little town of Sheldon, Iowa (pop. 4,251). Daughter of the president of the Sheldon National Bank, Burnice could always be counted on to help a needy family or befriend a deserving cause. It seemed as if half the folks in Sheldon could have testified to her generosity...
Lyndon Johnson took a notion to press the flesh with the folks in Omaha and Des Moines last week. Invited along were Daughter Luci Baines and Fiancé Pat Nugent, who attracted their share of attention-and then some. Luci, who admits to being a "theatrical person," wore a dazzling orange dress and outsized, orange-rimmed sunglasses. As for Pat, who was having troubles with an errant zipper on his trousers, limelight was the last thing he wanted. Afterward, the young couple headed down to the L.B.J. ranch for the holiday weekend and Luci's 19th birthday party...
...being mailed this week. Bearing the Presidential Seal, they begin: "The President and Mrs. Johnson request the honor of your presence . . ." Companion cards read: "A reception will be held at the White House following the ceremony." In the tizzy of planning the first wedding of a President's daughter since Eleanor Wilson's in 1914, the biggest problem-whom to invite?-kept Luci and her mother mulling endlessly over Christmas-card lists and guest rosters from earlier parties. The ceremony will take place in Washington's huge Roman Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, but invitations were...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
Albee, America's current master of theatrical invective, uses it here for potshots and heavy artillery in a marital Armageddon. His chief combatants are a pair of matched failures: George is an ineffectual, hagridden history professor; his wife Martha is the university president's daughter-a bitchy, aging man-eater with a father fixation and a casual lust for younger chaps. The entertainment takes shape very late one evening when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy...