Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present fight, it sometimes seems that no one is uninvolved. Liza Pulitzer Leidy, 26, one of Peter's three children by his first marriage (to Lilly Pulitzer), was dragged in by Roxanne, who alleged that father and daughter had had a sexual encounter in Europe in 1972. The putative incest allegedly occurred two years before Roxanne and Peter met, and both principals deny any such intimacy. Rather, according to Leidy, her stepmother Roxanne made an untoward advance in 1979 after the two had sniffed cocaine in the bath room of a West Palm Beach disco. Testified Leidy: "She said...
...wife Anna tells him that "what you saw there became your definition of suffering. And mere human, everyday suffering means nothing to you." She knows that he is sleeping with a young native girl, and this knowledge undermines her already unsteady self-confidence. She leans emotionally on her daughter Lily ("my old sweetheart"); the twelve-year-old girl must learn to inject Anna with drugs, care for her younger brother and sister and helplessly watch her family disintegrate. She must also, years later, find the strength to put the past behind...
Author Susanna Moore, 33, tells both of these stories in alternating chapters; Lily the child is a character in the past, while Lily the grown woman narrates the flash-forwards. This method of jumping forth and back is initially disconcerting but ultimately effective. Lily coexists as daughter and mother, a survivor of a history of losses...
...Prodigal Daughter, Archer...
DIED. Sarah Churchill, 67, tempestuous, redhaired, green-eyed, actress-author daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; of renal failure; in London. Beginning her career as a chorus girl in London, Sarah (Lady Audley) enjoyed a modest success on the stage and screen, later wrote books of verse and a memoir. Married three times, and often in the papers after drinking bouts and other extravagant behavior, she once retorted when asked whether she considered her father's name a handicap: "Father never made me feel I had to live it down. The question should be: Am I a handicap...