Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Harry S. Truman found his wife before the fireplace, burning their letters. "Bess," he protested. "Think of history." She replied, "I have." Fortunately, most of Harry's letters home were spared, thereby enhancing his legacy and helping his daughter Margaret write a gentle, warmhearted biography of the addressee. Harry had to chase Bess, a spirited child of a prominent Independence, Mo., family, for almost three decades before she would marry him. By the time he entered the White House in 1945, she was, he wrote her, "the only person in the world whose approval and good opinion I value...
Theatrical Agent Tony Rivers came right to the point: "I can't send you out as Joan Molinsky. You've got to change your name." The struggling nightclub comic did not waste a second: "Okay, I'll be Joan Rivers." The single-minded doctor's daughter from Larchmont, N.Y., helped herself to her agent's name, competitors' jokes, employers' postage stamps and free hotel rooms until her big break came on the Tonight show...
...Baby Boomers can be found quietly agitating for change in small, direct ways. "They are on the local school boards, the neighborhood committees, the grass-roots movements," says Atwater. A striking example of grass-roots success is Mothers Against Drunk Driving, founded by Candy Lightner, 40, after her teenage daughter was killed by an intoxicated motorist in 1980. MADD is largely responsible for toughening the drunken-driving laws and raising the drinking age in 38 states. Arlene Joye, 35, took a $15,000 pay cut when she left her job as a director of a pay-TV subscription service...
...killer, Vidor concluded, was Charlotte Shelby, who not only wanted to protect her daughter from Taylor but also had a yen for him herself. According to this scenario, the ultimate stage mother locked up her love-hungry daughter on the night of the murder. Minter escaped and fled to Taylor's house. When Normand came by on a social visit, the girl hid upstairs in the bedroom. Mama arrived with her trusty .38 just in time to see her daughter descending the stairs. Assuming the worst, she opened fire. The case was never solved because Shelby used most of Minter...
...always want to go back on the road." Carlos Bautista, whose family, when not being catapulted off a teeterboard, performs, according to the alliterative program, as "jaunty juggling juggernauts displaying dazzling dexterity": "This is what my father taught me to do. This is what I do." Bautista's daughter Patricia...