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When Lucas' father stopped sending money during his college pre-med course, the boy borrowed; and when he failed to borrow enough, he married for money-not much money, and not, by his standards, much of a woman. Kristina was a well-built Swedish girl from Minnesota who had read nothing, talked and dressed like an immigrant, and called him "Lu-key." But she was the head operating-room nurse at the university hospital, and she loved Luke in spite of all his inhuman fanaticism for his career. She put him through medical school. For Luke...
...when he went into practice as a small-town doctor's assistant, Lucas came upon more shocking specimens: doctors who let old, indigent patients die to get them out of the way, doctors who refused to answer night calls, a doctor who was a thief. As for Kristina, she was a wonder as a part-time nurse in the shabby county hospital, but as a doctor's wife she was a social embarrassment...
Born. To Garry Davis, 29, stage & TV actor, who last year gave up being No. 1 World Citizen to apply for the U.S. citizenship he renounced in 1948, and Audrey Peters Davis, 22, former Hollywood dancer: their first child, a daughter. Name: Kristina Star. Weight...
TIME'S readers, however, also have a right to know whether or not the reviewer read the book . . . He refers to the two leading characters of the book as "Kristina" and "her daughter, Countess Zia" . . . He need only have gone as far as page 11 to find out this basic fact: the book is primarily the story of two daughters of Count Dukay, Kristina...
...Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...