Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humor is one way to meet an insoluble obstacle and ease insupportable pain. Peter Nichols' tender play tells of a shaky marriage held together by a spastic daughter. Donal Donnelly and Zena Walker deftly balance laughter and pain...
Married. David Rockefeller Jr., 26, whose dad holds the purse strings at the Chase Manhattan Bank; and Sydney Roberts, 24, daughter of a Penn-Central Railroad executive; in BalaCynwyd...
...André Kostelanetz. She professes to a belief that "positive thinking is the key to success," and she confesses to "a burning desire to set up housekeeping and start having babies." But patio parties and the P.T.A. will have to wait. For Carol is a traveling salesman's daughter, and she took up golf at eleven because "I only got to see my father on weekends; since he was a golfer I figured this would be a good way to be with...
Most enthusiastic horse fanciers of all are teen-age daughters. Jim Little, who has 700 students at the Pegasus-Meadowbrook Stables in Maryland, notes that "19 out of 20 are girls or women. I think the reason for so little interest by boys is that they have so many sports, girls have so few." Kansas City Riding Instructor Jan Dickerson confirms that 80% of her students are girls. Says she: "Boys think riding is a matter of brute strength. Girls are gratified that they become good riders through developing their skills and fine sense of touch." Adds Carol Metzger...
Typical of the family in transition are the Robert Mitchums. Movie Actor Mitchum still keeps a ranch full of quarter horses, saddles them up Western style, as do Ronald Reagan and, on occasion, Bob Hope. But Mitchum's daughter Trina will have none of this riding-the-range bit; she's gone off and bought her own hunter, which she rides and shows English style. Nor is she alone: until five years ago at Valley Farm Stables riding was predominantly Western and casual; now, suddenly, 70% are using English saddles...