Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Center of interest at Yale today will be the 2.30 p.m. football game between once-tied Leverett House and favored. unbeaten Calhoun College for the intramural championship. Harvard is other six House will play their sister Colleges, while Dudley meets Timothy Dwight, traditional rival of Leverett...
...Manhattan, Zsa Zsa's older sister Maqda Gabor was having a quarrel with her insurance company. She was having trouble collecting a claim of $17,250 to cover assorted minks and gems stolen from her midtown apartment last winter. The policy would never have been written in the first place, said the company, if it had known all the facts. Magda is a well-known person, moving in highly publicized circles, and is therefore a "target risk," which neither she nor the insurance agent had bothered to mention...
...compile the inventory, two psychologists-H. H. Remmers of Purdue University and Robert H. Bauernfeind of Carleton College-questioned 6,000 school kids on every sort of problem from "I have to go to bed too early" to "I hit my sister." One-fourth of the children, they found, are chronic hypochondriacs, worried about all sorts of aches and pains (e.g., "I have a thumping . . ." "Sometimes I get real dizzy"). And almost as many are worried because "I am not nice-looking...
...Fairless was born, was a small cluster of sooty frame houses hard by the hillside coal pits where Fairless' father, David Williams, grubbed out a meager living for his wife and four children. Williams had such a hard time making ends meet that his wife's sister, Sarah Fairless, took five-year-old Ben to live with her in nearby Justus. In the front room of their house by the railroad tracks, her husband, Jacob Fairless, ran a grocery. The couple adopted Ben, and he took their name...
Ruthless towards others' nepotism, Fairless showed no favoritism of his own. His father, sister and two brothers had come to work at Central Steel, but they got the pay of ordinary workers. His father, now 86, worked at the plant until his retirement...