Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delay in Take-Off. According to Gloria Graham, Jack's wife, Mrs. King then turned to her son and handed him $3.50, instructing him to get three air-travel insurance policies on her life -one for Jack, one for his half-sister in Alaska, and one for his mother's sister in Missouri. When Flight 629 arrived from Chicago ten minutes later, Mrs. King said goodbye to the Grahams and their 22-month-old son Al len, kissed them affectionately and boarded the plane. The take-off was delayed another 12 minutes while the plane waited...
...secretiveness. He was born in Denver in 1932, the second child (by her second husband) of Daisie Walker, a politician's daughter from Steamboat Springs, Colo. When Jack was two, his father died, and Daisie was left penniless. She farmed out the boy and his older half-sister, Helen. Jack went to a Denver orphanage. In 1940, when his mother married John Earl King, a prosperous rancher, she gathered her family together again...
...week after her younger sister Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren, 22, eloped with a Los Angeles obstetrician (TIME, Nov. 14), blonde-banged Librarian Dorothy Warren, 24, second daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren, got set to bring one more medicine man into the family. Her fiancé: New Jersey-born Carmine D. Clemente, Ph.D., 27, assistant professor of anatomy in the medical school at the University of California at Los Angeles...
...Pratt, his sister. "Ann loved the gay life, the excitement of being always on the go-and she drew Bill into it. He wasn't as enthusiastic about it as she was, but he went along with it." Amid the glamour, the Woodwards' domestic life was anything but serene. As Bill matured, he grew more attractive to women, and Ann, five years older and desperately hiding the fact, began to fade. There were frequent quarrels, embarrassing scenes, separations and reconciliations. Seven years ago the two seriously discussed divorce, but called it off for the sake of their...
After two days of seclusion in Clarence House, Princess Margaret returned to the public life for which she was trained. Some 500 of her sister's subjects gathered in the rain on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral as she went to attend a commemorative service there. They stood respectfully as she passed by, a gentle smile suffusing her face. They gave her no cheers, but from here and there in the crowd came a few encouraging words: "Good luck" and "God bless...