Word: sister-in-law
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...from four months of rustication at Hyannisport and Newport, Jacqueline Kennedy hustled over to the Capitol's National Guard Armory (where she was to present the new Presidential Challenge Cup) only to find that Washington's 1961 International Horse Show had already been stolen by her sister-in-law, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 32. Fifteen years and seven babies beyond the days when she was the scourge of the equestrian East, the dark-eyed, dervish-like wife of the Attorney General had at the last minute daringly borrowed riding ensemble and steed to enter the conformation hunters competition...
Democratic Presence. As the letters show. Whitman was nagged by more than one man's fair share of family troubles. One brother was feebleminded, another alcoholic, another a syphilitic who died insane; a sister was married to an artist and blackmailer of whom Walt wrote as "a cringing crawling snake"; a sister-in-law was a streetwalker; his "loud, tight, crafty" carpenter father was no help at all. Only his sturdy Dutch mother, for all her complaints, parsimony and illiteracy ("Not being boss of your own shanty ain't the cheese," she wrote), gave aid and comfort...
...them), opened a small tapestry factory. But once again, sales were few. One day when he was nearly 40, he carved a small nude, Bather. At first Banyuls' prudery precluded his asking anyone to pose ("The best I succeeded in doing was to persuade my sister-in-law to raise her skirt a little above the knee"), but the small sculpture pleased him. He decided to stick to sculpture from then on. In 1900 he turned out his delicate Leda, which was included in his first Paris show two years later. "In all modern sculpture," said Rodin of Leda...
While the two Presidents discussed affairs of state, Jackie raced through her favorite city in the firm tow of the grandmotherly Mme. de Gaulle. Trailing behind her black bubbletop Citroen were her mother-in-law, Rose Kennedy, her sister, Princess Radziwill, Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver, and a bevy of lesser ladies in waiting. At the Jeu de Paume Museum, French Minister for Culture André Malraux whisked her past the collection of impressionist paintings in a breakneck 45 minutes. "I have just seen the most beautiful paintings in the world," gasped Jackie as she returned to the rain-splashed street...
First Lady of Fashion. Despite her desires, stylists study her every purchase. While she was off in Canada, fashion circles bubbled with rumors that Jackie was smuggling Paris creations into the White House, thus snubbing her official designer, Oleg Cassini, who in turn spanked Jackie by giving his sister-in-law a gown copied from one he had created for the First Lady. When Jackie admitted that she had indeed bought a Givenchy dress, U.S. couturiers paled, saw visions of her shopping at foreign salons while in Paris this week, warned that Manhattan's Seventh Avenue might turn into...