Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since 1946. The guests, including New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Chicago Merchant and Publisher Marshall Field Jr., and Jackie's sister Princess Radziwill, met in the Kennedys' private apartment for dinner and cocktails. Said the President to Stravinsky: "You have been through many things in your life. People have thrown sticks and tomatoes at you. Now you are here, and we are delighted to have you. You have enriched...
...terribly effective--as in a scene where a honey-voiced faith healer professionally handles a line of suffering and believing people, giving each one just so many seconds of consolation and then efficiently moving them off to the side: "Just you step right over there and pray a little, sister, God love you, and now, what's the matter, brother...
...State Department, Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency. Established last spring after the failure of the Cuban invasion, the agency's performance has never quite lived up to Administration hopes. Among the departing Crisis Center officials is Deputy Director Stephen E. Smith, 34, husband of President Kennedy's sister Jean. Smith has resigned in order to go to New York and help manage the Kennedy family's millions...
...Germany we Schells are like the Barrymores were in the U.S." Born in Vienna in 1930, Max is the third of four children of Swiss Poet-Playwright Hermann Schell. His mother was an actress. His brother Karl has established a sound acting reputation on the Continent. His younger sister, now called Editha Nordberg. is developing as a European film star. And his older sister, Maria, of course, is the most celebrated Germanic actress since Marlene Dietrich...
...Kaleburg Kafé, dances at the Cornflower Ballroom, high old times in Buzzy Burns's tavern, with its row of convenient cabins out back. His wife Donna is both high-spirited and indecisive, but he settles her down with a tumbling succession of babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin, a feckless Southerner who holds the depressed view that the U.S. is a giant pool table and he its eight ball: the Great Pool Player Upstairs puts him now in the side pocket of Louisiana, now in the corner...