Word: priscilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became so desperate at this news," one paragraph read, "that I decided to try the hot water and turpentine method someone had told me about. We poured one-half gallon of turpentine in a pail and added scalding water over this. Priscilla sat on the paid and I wrapped a blanket around her. The fumes were supposed to make her abort. This was done three times a day for three days. The only thing that happened was that I burnt her bottom...
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND by Svef-lana Alliluyeva, translated from the Russian by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. 256 pages. Harper...
...Europe for a book. By week's end Greenbaum had concluded lucrative agreements with publishers in most European countries. The prices were all the more remarkable since none of the buyers has read the book. It is still in the process of being translated into English by Priscilla Johnson MacMillan at her family's home on Long Island, where she is being assisted by Svetlana. Moreover, the memoir is said to contain few political revelations and not much awareness of Russian politics. The book, as Harper & Row puts it, is a story told "with a rare lyric intensity...
Married. Elvis Presley, 32, a founding father of rock 'n' roll and one of the best-paid performers in show-biz history (1966 earnings: about $4,000,000); and Priscilla Beaulieu, 21, smashing brunette daughter of a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, whom Elvis started courting in 1959 when he was doing his Army hitch in Germany; both for the first time; in a modest civil ceremony in Las Vegas...
...celebrity in the U.S. Although elaborate security measures were taken to keep her hidden during her first few days in the U.S., it took newsmen less than a day to track her down. Svetlana was staying at the home of Long Island Socialite Stuart Johnson, whose daughter Priscilla is the translator of her book, and she apparently had no intention of staying out of sight entirely. Hardly had she arrived at the Johnson home when she set out on foot for a look around town...