Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auspicious debut. Mom strummed the ukulele in the blind pig that she operated in Lansing, Mich., and out onto the floor came a skinny, freckled five-year-old named Betty June Thornburg, with her sister Marion, seven. While the speakeasy customers sipped needled beer, the blonde moppets sang and wriggled their way through Black Bottom and other favorite anthems of the year...
...Betty was jealous of her sister right from the start," says her mother, who has since remarried and lives in Hollywood not far from Betty. "She was always in my lap, always after affection. She would stand on her head, do cartwheels, yell or do anything to attract attention away from her quieter sister." As the girls grew up, Betty envied Marion her more luxuriant hair and her pretty face...
Married. Princess Fatmeh of Iran, 21, U.S. educated (Converse College, S.C.) daughter of the late Shah Mohamed Riza Pahlevi, youngest sister of the ruling Shah of Iran; and Vincent Lee Hillyer, 24, son of a Los Banos, Calif, doctor; in Civitavecchia, Italy. Although Hillyer offered to become an Iranian citizen and a Moslem, the Shah inexorably divested Fatmeh of all her royal privileges for marrying without his consent...
...real triumph of this brief, flashing play lies in its speech, a combination of unabashed medieval richness and 20th Century directness. When the mayor's sister, hearing the bells of the witch hunt, casually remarks, "Oh! - dear; another?" Thomas Mendip is appalled and angered by her lack of heart...
Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). My Sister Eileen, with Rosalind Russell...