Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marilyn grew up, she felt herself-in the shadow of her favored sister Arlene, who is three years older. She turned moody and inward, took to her room to scribble poetry-a kind of release to which she has resorted ever since. Recalls Actress Novak: "I was real skinny, real anemic. In school I was always in the last row or next-to-last row, according to the marks. I was seated with the jerks...
...shots, and Khrushchev, who had wit and a fund of droll peasant sayings, and could laugh with his hands on his hips at the boss's mordant quips, was soon a regular visitor at the dacha Stalin kept for his fun-loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed hundreds...
Unconvinced, U.S. District Judge Harry C. Westover threw out of his Los Angeles court last week a $3,000,000 countersuit by Harrison charging California's attorney general with suppression and censorship for warning dealers and distributors that they might be prosecuted for handling Confidential and its gutter-sister Whisper. And in the first libel suit that has yet included Confidential's 3,000 California distributors as well as the magazine, Screen Star Maureen (The Quiet Man) O'Hara asked for $1,000,000 in damages for a March story that claimed she once picked...
Modern Britons know better than to pack up their troubles in their old kit-bags. Instead, more than 130,000 suffering souls each year write, telephone or wire their woes to the cockney-sharp Daily Mirror (circ. 4,723,131) or its scandal-breathing sister, the Sunday Pictorial (5,709,893). Encouraged by occasional black-boxed invitations in both tabloids (DON'T WORRY ON YOUR OWN), Mirror readers address their problems to one Philip Wright, while the Pictorial asks the woebegone to confide in its John Noble...
...MacLeod is having quite a time of it. In a letter from Peking, husband Gerald writes that he loves her and all that, but, since the Communists dislike his non-Sinic connections, he is obliged to take another wife. The new Chinese wife also writes to Vermont ("Dear Elder Sister . . ."). Throughout, Mrs. MacLeod proves to be so quilted in sensibility as to resemble a carnivorous tea cosy...