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...DECEMBER 16, 1981, a Brooklyn woman named Shirley Santos--an unwed mother with six children--brought her four-year-old daughter to the hospital. Covered with welts and urinating blood, the child had clearly been the victim of a violent outburst. After only a few hours at the hospital, police arrested Santos on charges of child abuse. "I don't remember what happened," she told them. "I would never hurt my baby...I just got my period...
...story even after she had it. Her book cites several examples: Presidential Aides Ron Nessen and Hamilton Jordan stalled or fibbed to persuade her to forget leaks that could embarrass their Administrations; CBS Reporter Lesley Stahl overheard, and promptly duplicated, Woodruffs exclusive on the appointment of Shirley Hufstedler as the first Cabinet-level Secretary of Education in 1979. The news items were fleeting, but the lesson lasted. Says Woodruff: "As with most competitive pursuits, nice reporters tend to finish last." Woodruff has also learned from her husband Albert Hunt, the Wall Street Journal's highly respected congressional reporter, though...
...effect, the curator for this romantic restoration was Shirley A.M. Sherwood, wife of the shipping tycoon and an Oxford-educated research biochemist. "Every coach had a different story," she says, and a plaque in each car traces its provenance. The most exquisite of all is a dining car with eight frosted-glass panels handcrafted in the style of famed 19th century French jeweler Rene Lalique. The sleeping compartments, nine to twelve to a car, are marvels of compact beauty, with comfortable bench seats that convert into upper and lower berths, mahogany drop tables, and inlaid doors enclosing an ornate washbasin...
...A.A.O.) estimates that since the 1970s the number of adults wearing braces has increased 50% to 75%. The A.A.O. claims that of the 4 million Americans currently wearing braces about 800,000 are over 18. (Adults who openly sport braces include Nancy Kissinger, 48, and Miss America of 1975, Shirley Cothran Barrett, 29. Barrett, in fact, appears fully wired in an ad the A.A.O. has been running in magazines to foster a positive image of grownup braces.) Says Spiro Chaconas, chairman of the department of orthodontics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dental School: "If Eleanor Roosevelt were alive...
Some family. Shirley is a theatrical producer and literary agent. Burton is a celebrated biographer and New Yorker staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson...