Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head off the heartache. The small Roman Catholic girls' school in Dubuque, Iowa, accepts the commonplace theory that fledging a family of children can leave a woman with too much time and a painful lack of purpose. Consequently, Clarke trains its girls to be come, as President Sister Mary Benedict explains it, "the heart, the educated heart, not only of the home but of communities outside the home...
Soon Cap decided he couldn't both make money and raise a daughter all by himself. So Lady Bird's upbringing fell to her mother's sister, Aunt Effie, who moved from Alabama to Texas. Under Effie's strict discipline, Lady Bird read prodigiously, plowed through Ben-Hur when she was eight, memorized poems that she can still recite today. But the dainty spinster aunt could never really fill a mother's role. Says Lady Bird now: "She opened my spirit to beauty, but she neglected to give me any insight into the practical matters...
...Francoise (38-23-36) Dorléac, 22, Deneuve's vivacious sister, has a funny-bone that suggests a blend of Carole Lombard and Kay Kendall. Her body is long and sinewy, and she prances when she walks, but her hair is her fortune. It covers her face like a sheep dog's, gets in her mouth when she talks, floats in her own prop wash as she capers ahead of That Man from Rio. Showing no face at all, only hair, she read for the lead in the Paris production of Gigi...
...into the family fortune of $100 million or so. "Excuse my client," pleaded his lawyer. "He is blinded by the thought of the freedom he wants so desperately." So the court blinked at Rhadames' clinker, set bail at only 10 million francs ($2,000,000), which his mother, sister and brother put up in a wink...
...part of a sensational expose on British racketeering, London's tabloid Sunday Mirror last month thundered on its front page that Scotland Yard was investigating a homosexual relationship between a peer of the realm and a notorious London gangster. The Sunday Mirror and its weekday sister, the Daily Mirror, which repeated the story, named no names, describing the peer only as "a household word." But upon returning from a vacation, Lord Boothby, 64, onetime parliamentary private secretary to Winston Churchill, looked into the Mirrors and in effect screamed: That's me they're talking about...