Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radio signals of another sort were responsible last week for postponing the scheduled launching of an Atlas-Agena B rocket on the start of a 4½-month, 224 million-mile journey to Venus, the earth's sister planet. Mariner I was all set for the shot when an unindentified radio signal detected in the booster rocket made technicians at Cape Canaveral fear a malfunction. Later, they rescheduled the flight, which is aimed at discovering the first accurate data about Venus and its mysterious atmosphere...
Skinny Candidate. Powers was an unemployed Air Force veteran living with his sister back in 1946 when a young man appeared at the door of their Charlestown three-decker and said: "My name is John Kennedy. I'm going to be a candidate for Congress, and I'd like to have you with me." The meeting turned into friendship, and Powers, who was said to know almost everyone in Charlestown by his first name, soon was leading Kennedy up and down the back steps of the neighborhood's countless three-deckers, popping into kitchens where neighbors pledged...
...father's side. "Ceezee" Guest (the nickname is her sister's childhood mispronunciation of "sister") is Boston Old Guard-and nothing is older or more guarded than that. Her husband is New York Old Guard-charming, handsome and rich. Their stables are among the nation's best, and their Long Island estate would be one of the nation's showplaces if it were ever on show. But Ceezee's mother was a New York actress, and Ceezee herself once shook a leg as a show girl...
...standards of staid old Boston, Ceezee was a bumptious debutante. She and her one-year-older sister Nancy, another high-spirited and conspicuously pretty blonde, were always making news, and Mrs. Pickman was kept busy berating the newspapers for printing pictures of them. Both were avid rooters for the Bruins hockey team; they knew all the players' names, and it was even rumored that on occasion Ceezee varied her diet of Harvard boys to go out with some of the squad. "She was always very democratic," recalls a contemporary...
...with three other post-debs (including her sister Nancy), Ceezee appeared in a cabaret show at the Ritz roof garden as part of an act called "Boston's American Beauties." Her theatrical ambitions were doubtless enhanced by her heavy beau of that time, Movie Actor Victor Mature, who was stationed in Boston in the Coast Guard. In 1944, when she was 24, Lee Shubert gave her a job as show girl in the Broadway revival of the Ziegfeld Follies. One night at a party she met Darryl Zanuck, who arranged a screen test on the basis of which 20th...