Word: missing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Alexandria" is, quite naturally, the last of the Morleys, a family that has more or less owned Unionville for generations. With her "thin, regal nose" and her whim of iron, she is a durable devotee of doing things right. "I was brought up to be polite," she says complacently, "even if it killed you." Living in a world of Satsuma bowls and family portraits, she nonetheless bravely jousts with the local mineowners, predictably besting them all. Through a shrewd financial maneuver, she forces them to pay their delinquent school taxes. Conveniently deaf, socially deft and totally domineering, she admits...
Perhaps it is churlish to make fun of Miss Alexandria. Certainly the author would never do so. He observes that the virtues of such women, products of pre-tax wealth and protracted social training, are unlikely to survive the times. Fondly, he seeks to preserve their manners and their memory. If Miss Alexandria seems not entirely real except to his eye, what matter? Affection, especially in much of modern literature, is a rare commodity. Like the loyalty of a husband to an unattractive wife, Richter's affection for this Main Street Auntie Mame ends up being somewhat touching...
...Harvard graduates who stole the show from Steve McQueen and Faye Dunnaway in the recent flick. The Thomas Crown Affair, will be appearing this Sunday afternoon at the Myopia Hunt Club, so don't miss it fans...
...Miss Blueye and her friend--an Italian citizen living in West Germany--were arrested on August 11, the State Department official said. The State Department knew nothing of the incident until early September, when Miss Blueye's parents, concerned because she had not returned on her Harvard Charter flight, contacted them...
There has been no formal charge or indictment yet, the official said. The American Embassy in Budapest is in touch with Miss Blueye's lawyer and with the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he added. The American Consul saw Miss Blueye on September 18, and reported that she seemed in good spirits, and that she was being treated well...