Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 39 years as mayor of Smyrna, Tenn. (pop. 12,000), John Sam Ridley could hardly separate his personal business from the town's. He used his city credit card to visit a daughter in Texas, vacation in Florida and attend the Southern Baptist Convention, claiming that as mayor he was on duty 24 hours a day. He and his brother Knox, a former judge, owned Smyrna's Chevrolet dealership, which serviced cars for the city. A conflict-of-interest suit filed against Sam dragged on for seven years, through two of his re-elections. Then, facing an impending decree...
...committee which included President Kennedy's daughter Caroline and representatives from 20 neighborhood organizations planned the park, which was funded through allocations from the Massachusetts state legislature, said Leanne M. Delveccio, a spokesman for the Metropolitan District Commission which oversaw the park's construction...
...meet the widowed Hanff's closest friends, a wealthy young couple, a well-heeled actress daughter of a Park Avenue matron and a working-girl neighbor and her British boyfriend. They are a motley crew whose collective eccentricity is matched only by the writers own. All of these episodes--save one in which the actress, temporarily in London, scopes out the infamous bookstore for her pal back in the States--are irrelevant to the story's principal theme, bibliophilia, and remain half-baked...
Hollywood has decreed that love goddesses never find lasting love, and Rita's marriages unreeled like so many bad movies. After her 1943 divorce from Judson came Orson Welles, but "Orsie," with whom she had a daughter Rebecca, was devoted mostly to Orsie. "I'm tired of being a 25% wife," she later said. In 1949, with the whole world looking on, she wed the playboy Aly Khan, with whom she had her second daughter Yasmin. The match lasted only two years, but she remembered him fondly: "The world was magical when you were with him." There were two more...
...spot the invasion in the South was retired Textile Worker Hugh Salmons, who on May 9 saw the glistening bodies on the willow oaks in his front yard in Elkin, N.C. The next morning, Judy Carpenter, 32, of Blairsville, Ga., was in the backyard playing softball with her daughter when she saw the intruder, its red eyes glinting in the sun and its clawed front feet pulling it through the grass. Within 24 hours she had collected 21 of them in a jar from the rhododendron bush in front of the house...