Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kentucky Melody. Rosemary Clooney comes from historic ballad country, about ten miles upstream from the place where Eliza nipped across the ice ahead of the bloodhounds. She was born on May 23, 1928, the daughter of a housepainter in Maysville, Ky. (pop. 8,600). Her sister Betty came along three years later and, two years after that, a brother, Nicholas. Later her parents separated, and Rosemary, moving from relative to relative and town to town, has never settled down since (though, nowadays, two blocks of a Maysville street is officially known as "Rosemary Clooney Street...
Growing up, Rosemary and sister Betty were always close and almost always singing. An argument about which one was to take the melody and which the harmony might start in the bathroom before 8 in the morning and continue all the way to school. When Rosemary was 17, they fell into a sister singing act at Cincinnati's WLW and were on their...
...loved him so much that she had decided to let him do more things for himself-notably, of course, to dress himself. Mike was included in a weekly "family council," where his parents treated him as an equal and let him get things off his chest. (If his sister had been old enough, she would have been required to take part, too. It often develops that the "good" brother or sister is the real cause of the "problem child's" behavior...
Married. Alice Bauer, 25, tiny (5 ft. 1½ in.), long-driving golfer, famed as a barnstormer with younger sister Marlene ("the beautiful Bauers"); and Robert Hagge, 25, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) golf pro; in Sarasota...
...village of Ginjim in southern India to visit the girl's family. In Ginjim, the barometer is low and human passions are high. The family's younger daughter (Ursula Thiess), a child of nature who runs around in scanty outfits, takes the eye of her sister's fiancé. Before long they are cuddling in an abandoned temple, exchanging such lines as: "I will love you with my whole being and forever" and "Half a love is worse than none." To go with this deluge of dialogue, a monsoon sets in, to the accompaniment of native drums...