Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found herself envying the new Evangelicals but not really able to join them. Thirty miles and several worlds away from Darien, Correspondent Jeanne Saddler was impressed by a group of Evangelicals who minister to derelicts in Times Square. "While no one dragged me to the baptismal font," says Saddler, "mother will have an easier time getting me to church this Christmas...
...months. It lasted for 57 years, and Winston called it "the most fortunate and joyous event" of his life. During his long exile in the political wilderness, her intelligence, her tact and her faith in him made her the perfect foil for his tempestuous outbursts and black depressions. The mother of five (only two survive: Actress Sarah Churchill and Mary Soames, wife of Diplomat Christopher Soames), she accompanied her husband on wartime missions abroad, even on late-night inspections of London during the blitz. Last February, to meet expenses, she began selling off family heirlooms and Sir Winston...
...days, it was an endless whirl of parties in Ireland. Back in the U.S., Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much so that she stayed...
...columnist's arrest last winter in a barroom brawl, an incident Madigan recounted in loving detail. The radio scold frequently delights in picking Royko's nits. The columnist last month reported that Mayor Bilandic, in firing Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely transferred to another job. Sniffs Royko: "Madigan is a man of deep and abiding faith when it comes to city hall and the things his friends there tell him. He is sort of a born-again payroller...
Plunging through a hole, cutting to elude pursuing linebackers, squirming for ward with with the tacklers best of draped around and to him, have Payton earned may be the hardest runner to bring down in the N.F.L. game. "He's just mule-headed," says his mother Alyne, whose oldest son Eddie returns kicks for the Detroit Lions. "When five or six players get him, he just won't give...