Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard home run for Barresi important for the Crimson squad, which seemed to be inspired by her blast, but it was also important for Barresi Among the 22 spectators who braved the 40-degree weather at Soldiers Field was her father, who was in from Cohasset to see his daughter...
...hospitalized, a court order is quickly obtained. At a Long Island hospital last week, a New York State judge heard late-night testimony from James and Theresa Tuomey, both Jehovah's Witnesses; then, over their objections, he ordered a lifesaving transfusion for their prematurely born, one-day-old daughter...
...years ago. Charles Babbage, a mathematics professor at Cambridge University who also invented the speedometer and the locomotive cowcatcher, in 1834 designed a machine called the analytical engine to solve mathematical equations; it is generally considered the forerunner of today's computers. Augusta Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, helped finance the project. Credited with being the world's first programmer, she used punched cards to tell the machine what...
Young Candy was, of course, the daughter of Edgar Bergen, the enormously popular ventriloquist who delighted the country Sunday evenings on radio's Chase & Sanborn show. But that meant that she was also the little sister of Charlie McCarthy, Bergen's cheeky, insulting, wise-guy dummy. A peculiar sibling rivalry existed, in fact, that went far beyond the obvious joke kept alive by newspaper feature writers. Charlie was a startling alter ego for the dour Swedish ventriloquist-that was what Candice Bergen made the act work so well-and he was already a star when Candy was tiny...
...decline and death is touching, and the reader feels a real victory when at last she is able to tell the old entertainer she loves him. Her marriage four years ago to French Director Louis Malle (Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby) was the act of an adult, not a rebellious daughter, and fittingly she says little more than that it is warm and strong. -By John Skow