Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because he wanted to sleep outdoors), and occasionally, her attractive older sister Elinor, who once played in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her guests Publisher Patterson rarely talks about herself, has a reporter's knack of drawing them out with penetrating questions while she stays in the background storing up information...
...Runyon drove her husband out of the house, and Mr. Runyon drove his wife to drink. None of this did Damon Jr. or his older sister any good. The sister had a nervous breakdown and Damon Jr. became an alcoholic. By 23, he had been through the D.T.s, jails and psycho wards before getting cured via Alcoholics Anonymous. In Father's Footsteps, Damon Jr., now 36 and a Miami newspaperman, gives his version of why Damon Sr. was everything a father should...
...Greek Communist Party and chief of its underground espionage system. For more than six years, the tubercular Ploumbides had hidden in the squalid back alleys of Athens, playing cat-and-mouse with police, while he and his illegal spy ring sent information across the border. His sister had been executed for Red activity; his wife Julia was in prison awaiting the same fate...
Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...
School for Hope, by Michael McLav erty. A quietly lilting story of how a bachelor schoolmaster and a young schoolmarm overcome a jealous sister and a family jinx (TIME, July...