Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarm fire sent clouds of smoke through an apartment house directly across from the College Observatory on Concord Street. Among those fleeing the blaze, which was confined to the basement, were the Massachusetts' Governor's sister, Marie Dever, and several families of University employees...
...tranquil face. For the past four years, Julia A. Shelhamer, widow of a Free Methodist evangelist, has lived in her mission-a row-house in one of Washington's worst slums. With the help of two assistant ministers, their wives and her own 77-year-old sister, she conducts church and Sunday school services, plus a full schedule of community activities, for a congregation that is about half Negro, half white. "Sometimes," she says, "there are just ten or twelve people; other times we're packed and jammed." Last Thanksgiving she fed 1,000 people...
After Qavam, the Shah had a succession of weak and venal governments, many of whose members were appointed through the influence of his sister, pretty Princess Ashraf. She likes to reward her favorites with jobs, especially in the Finance Ministry. Her love for money meets few obstacles, but her love of power recently received a setback when the Shah asked his other sister, Princess Chams, to pick a bride for him. Princess Chams is retiring and sweet, the exact opposite of Princess Ashraf. The latter was enraged when Chams chose Soraya Esfandiari, daughter of a chief of the powerful Bakhtiari...
Operations to separate joined twins are rarely successful. A recent attempt, on Canadian Brenda and Beverley Townsend last May (TIME, May 22), ended in death for both babies when surgeons found that a portion of the heart of each extended into the chest cavity of her sister...
...Daughter of Preacher Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911), sister of Essayist Logan Pearsall Smith...