Word: orphaning
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...more than a memory borne on the elusive scent of a perfume now made by someone else. Yet, during the 1920s, when Paris was still the uncontested capital of haute couture, the unchallenged queen regnant of Paris fashion was petite, disdainful Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel. A bored, restless, country-bred orphan who fled to the city at 17 with no capital beyond her native Auvergnate shrewdness, Chanel had parlayed a flair for simple elegance into a million-dollar fashion business whose headquarters was the distinctive salon at 31 Rue Cambon, Paris...
...Manhattan, William Anthony Burton, 11, raised by his maternal grand mother, Mrs. Lucile Burton, to believe that he was an orphan, got the good news that he was heir to a $6,800,000 brewery fortune left by his great-grandmother. Then Mrs. Burton had little choice but to tell William the rest: his father, Wayne Lonergan, 36, is still alive, serving a 35-years-to-life stretch for the mur der of William's heiress mother, Patricia Burton Lonergan, in Manhattan's most tabloid-hued crime...
...Creek for good. The Arizona Supreme Court ordered the men to live only with their legal wives, but most of the women have dispersed throughout the state since the Governor overturned the Short Creek variety of paradise. Now 162 children are left with unwed mothers to grow up in orphan homes with an ugly stigma. With only a lone bachelor and a monogamous couple left, Short Creek's fields of hay and barley will parch under the hot Arizona...
...Highness. Buchwald's amazement is understandable. Since his mother took sick just after he was born, he spent his childhood being shifted back & forth from foster homes to orphan asylums. He had never traveled beyond the New York area until at 16 he ran away, lied about his age and joined the Marines. After 18 months in the Pacific, he was discharged, attended the University of Southern California for three years, then bought a one-way ticket to Europe with his $250 New York State serviceman's bonus. In Paris, he lived on his $75 G.I. Bill allowance...
...people from all over Italy and from Zone A crowded into the cemetery amphitheater for the annual ceremony. Among the dignitaries on hand in Redipuglia, 20 miles northwest of Trieste, was Italy's Premier Giuseppe Pella. An open-air Mass was said, patriotic songs were sung, a Trieste orphan boy (grandson of a soldier buried at Redipuglia) read the last order of the day, which Italians call the victory bulletin...