Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to the Duke University School of Medicine was that science, when it comes to migraine, is better armed with pain-killers than with cures. NBC's Medic is ordinarily more interested in shock values than in therapy, and last week showed a hysterical mother accusing her spinster sister of the willful murder of a three-month-old infant. After an endless autopsy, the coroner was able to prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment...
Marriage Revealed. Marlene Bauer, 21, topflight golfer, onetime barnstormer with her older sister Alice ("the golden Bauers"); and Robert Hagge, 28, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) golf pro; he for the second (his first: sister Alice), she for the first time; on Dec. 1, in Geneva...
...About the same time that the generals were returning from the war, Idella Ruth Blackadder, then 21 and an RKO starlet, came back from an overseas stint with a U.S.O. troupe and met Marx at a party the next day. Idella, who is Ecdysiast Lili St. Cyr's half sister, married Marx. When Marx took Idella, who is two inches taller and 28 years younger, to meet General Gruenther on a European trip, Gruenther greeted Idella with: "What on earth did you marry him for?" Declared Marx: "I'm the one with the brains." Although some acquaintances had predicted that...
...Marx parents shifted their little store from neighborhood to neighborhood with scant success, and there were few luxuries for Louis, his elder sister Rose and younger brother Dave. "But I don't remember feeling my life was tough," says Louis. "People in Brooklyn were warm and understanding, and I learned a lot about democracy. The class struggle? Someone sold that idea. We never felt...
...mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower of splintered glass panes. Next, Lettitia sent her husband crashing to his death from a rotten balcony. Before she herself died (of a migraine), Lettitia 1) dispatched...