Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ebbw Vale. In contrast to Eden's cautious doubts, Bevan was in a mood of exuberant confidence when he got back to his sister's house in Tredegar. His wife Jennie Lee called him from Cannook (in Staffordshire), where she was running for1 reelection. Said Nye to Jennie: "Everything's fine here, my sweet. How are you -exhausted...
After three years as U.S. naval attache in Rumania, genial Captain Eugene-("Fish") Karpe, 45, was on his way home for reassignment. At Vienna, the burly former destroyer commander visited the wife and sister-in-law of his old friend and fellow Annapolisman, Robert Vogeler, the American businessman jailed as a spy by Communist Hungary (TIME, Feb. 27). Mrs. Vogeler gave him her husband's silver lighter-"to keep until you can give it back to Bob." Then Captain Karpe boarded the blue-and-gold Arlberg-Orient Express for Paris...
Paid in Full (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a smoothly produced, competently played tearjerker about a self-sacrificing woman (Lizabeth Scott) who suffers & suffers. Having accidentally killed the only child that her sister (Diana Lynn) can have, she marries her brother-in-law (Robert Cummings) when his divorce comes through. Then, knowing that she must die in childbirth, she bears him a baby, leaves him to remarry her sister so that they can raise the child as a substitute for their own. The film comes from a story originally published in Reader's Digest. It is the kind of story...
...Sister Ruth skips quickly over the political blush that came into her cheekbones and Mike's in 1946, when the Communist Party publicly booted them out for "left deviationism." Despite their poignant cries of distress, the party kept the door locked, Author McKenney and her husband in outer darkness. Says she now: "A dismal political row . . . The whole thing was a mistake...
...hued." But fortunately, her Love Story is sufficiently veneered with shyness to keep the apples in the reader's high cheekbones: though it is always a bit vulgar, it is never coarse. It takes the reader through a tragicomic record of Lyman ups & downs, including the death of Sister Eileen in an automobile accident, and draws to a close just before the Lymans and their three children take off for Europe...