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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lavishly jeweled American widow and her elderly lawyer friend were steered everywhere by a handsome Mexican-American travel agent. Young Luis Fenton was a great find. His office was right in their hotel, Las Hamacas. Wealthy Mrs. Edith Hallock, 63, even wrote home admiringly about him to her sister in New York. With the help of Luis, 33, she and Joseph A. Michel, 70, saw everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy couple, even brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed that the missing couple's good friend in Acapulco had been Luis Fenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

They Called for More. No stranger to seamy-side reporting, Norma Lee Browning, 42, is a veteran Tn&sister whose assignments have ranged from posing as a repentant prostitute (TIME, Dec. 12, 1949) to interviewing the then Princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anglo-Saxon Migration | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...plot, publicized by the film The Last Time I Saw Paris, involves a man who sowed quite a few wild oats during the stock market boom. He returns after the death of his wife to reclaim his daughter from his sister-in-law, who blames him for his wife's death. Seven-year-old Rachel Whitman is most fetching and unaffected as the young daughter. Phyllis Ferguson is completely believable as the sister-in-law, mixing resentment for her toiling and skimping with a warmth and tenderness. James Stinson plays her sympathetic husband with suitable low pressured earnestness. Roger Moldovan...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Babylon Revisited | 3/8/1957 | See Source »

...years later, in 1950, Mother Teresa received canonical sanction for her order. Today the sisters run nine day schools, 15 Sunday schools, two commercial schools, two technical schools, and seven dispensaries, which treated 49,000 patients last year. Mother Teresa has adopted Indian citizenship, and all her sisters are Indian. Their habit is the sari -to identify them with the country and because it is the most practical dress in Calcutta's humid climate. (No sister possesses more than two saris; in teaching hygiene to the poor, they are able to point out that it is possible to dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sisters in Saris | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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