Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ENGAGED. Janet Auchincloss, seventyish, socialite mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; and Bingham W. Morris, 93, retired investment banker described by Auchincloss as "a very close childhood friend." Auchincloss's first marriage, to John Bouvier III, the dashing stockbroker father of Jackie and Lee Radziwill, ended in divorce. Her second husband, Hugh Auchincloss, also a stockbroker, died...
Young learned negotiation and conciliation in the Italian and Irish neighborhood of New Orleans where he was born 47 years ago. His grandfather was a prosperous "bayou entrepreneur," his father a dentist, and his mother a prominent black Creole. Although they tried to shield him from racial prejudice, Young recalls: "I was taught to fight when people called me Nigger, and that's when I learned negotiating was better than fighting." After going to Howard University and Hartford Seminary Foundation, he eventually moved to Atlanta to work with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1972, after...
...Hooff, who started the colony in 1971, the adoption is an exhilarating success. He points out that the new mother knew all along she was accepting a baby not her own. His next task: introducing Roosje to the colony in hopes that the other chimps will accept...
...Roman Catholicism of his beloved governess Vlasta. It was this happenstance, perhaps, that made it possible for him to endure the enormous change in his life that occurred when he was ten. The family fled to France in 1939, but by the summer of 1942 they knew, as his mother wrote in a letter that has survived, that "we can no longer exist legally ..." Before the parents were seized and shipped off to their deaths, they managed to have their son accepted in a Roman Catholic boarding school at Montluçon as "Paul-Henri Ferland," a Catholic orphan...
...political atmosphere surrounding the school was pro-Vichy and of course antiSemitic. Young Pavel/Paul-Henri languished, sickened and nearly died, but in the end survived, in a masquerade that became a reality. He found in the Virgin a kind of substitute for his mother, he says, and became a wholehearted convert...