Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australian, Belgian, Greek, Italian, Peruvian and Spanish ambassadors to the U.S. were among the 800 or so guests attending Newport's top summer spectacular: the debut of winsome Janet Jennings Auchincloss, 18, daughter of Investment Broker Hugh D. Auchincloss and half sister of Jacqueline Kennedy (who sent a bouquet, insisted the party go on despite her own recent tragedy). The Auchincloss estate, Hammersmith Farm, was done up in Venetian style, with colored lanterns, a pink marquee on the lawn overlooking Narragansett Bay, Meyer Davis' orchestra in gondolier garb, gondolier hats for the young men and golden masks...
...Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become unmanageable, and the Brigham doctors concluded that only a transplant could save her life. Sister Wanda was willing, and graft tests showed that the twins were indeed identical...
...they became understandably tense in January of 1958, when Edith Helm arrived from Sand Springs, Okla., about seven months pregnant. On March 10 she had a normal baby boy by caesarean. Little more than two years later she had a girl, also by caesarean, in Gushing, Okla. Meanwhile, Sister Wanda had had three normal pregnancies and deliveries...
Most nuns choose a religious life because they have a vocation. Not Sister Virginia. Instead of a vocation, she had a widowed father who wanted to get rid of her. At 14, she entered the Convent of Santa Margherita in the north Italian town of Monza, took the veil two years later. Her father, the Lord of Monza, not only managed to save the expense of a dowry but also pocketed the bulk of his daughter's personal fortune and was left free to range the world, fighting the Moors, the English and the Turks. Based on trial records...
Satan's Payroll. Until she was 22, Sister Virginia's life passed uneventfully in the nunnery. Then she looked out a window and saw Gian Paolo Osio, a handsome young man who lived on a fine estate next to the convent. "After I had seen Osio twice," Sister Virginia said, "it seemed as though I were forced by the Devil to go to that window." She meant it literally. Like everyone else in those days, Sister Virginia believed that Satan and all his devils roamed the world to snare men's souls...