Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn German, Alicia was a product of his restless ways. Full of her father's high spirits, she was troublesome enough to be bounced out of two of the world's fanciest finishing schools before managing to get through Foxcroft. She roamed Europe with her mother and sister, but her mother finally despaired of trying to keep her in tow. When Mother cabled Joe asking him to talk to his daughter, she received the reply: "Keep Alicia moving...
...inevitably, the star witnesses were Christine Keeler and Marilyn ("Mandy") Rice-Davies. During Christine's testimony, Ward quietly sketched her from the dock. Christine said that between lovers of her own, she would stay platonically with Ward at his Wimpole Mews flat. "We were like brother and sister," she said, but fraternally, Ward kept her supplied with men. "My life used to revolve around Stephen from the moment I got up until the moment I went to bed," she said. "I thought I could never stand on my feet unless he was there to support me mentally...
...mirror one day, his wife saw a strange face, that of a very young girl-saintly, fair, rather sad. From his wife's description, Constantino knew instantly who it was: his own beloved sister Izildinha, who had died back home in 1911 at the age of 13. Izildinha, rumor had it, was so devout that Jesus once visited her. Again and again, Senhora Ribeiro's visions returned, and as Izildinha's fame spread, so did Constantino's business...
...Fall. But before long, things began to go wrong. Constantino accused his managers in Monte Alto of embezzling company funds, announced he wanted nothing more to do with the town, sold his factory, and demanded the return of his sainted sister's body-back to Sao Paulo, "where she belongs with her family." Monte Alto's town fathers pleaded, even held a festival in Constantino's honor last year. They named a street after him, dedicated a bust to his late wife. But there was no placating Constantino...
...joint. Actress Anita Louise specialized in throwing trays of glasses; Fashion Leader Mrs. Harcourt Amory wielded a sledge hammer on a 30-ft. red velvet-lined balustrade; Mrs. Jacob Javits timidly tossed just one champagne glass while her Senator husband looked on. But Mrs. Wellington Koo, sister-in-law of Chiang Kaishek, won the wreckers' honors. She took an ax to the wall, then to a chair and finally sank it in a sofa that the management had not even intended to destroy...