Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police commissaire in the town of Loudun, north of Poitiers, knocked on the door of Marie Besnard, a dowdy, 52-year-old widow, and ordered her to come along. The charge: that she had poisoned with arsenic her mother, father, two husbands, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandmother-in-law, two cousins, great-aunt, and two close friends. Last week, after twelve years and three trials, one of the century's most intricate murder cases-and one of the longest-came...
...World. Josephine Paul was born in Iowa and raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of a well-heeled builder and real estate investor. Even as a young woman, she showed sharp business sense, and with her sister, she ran a successful greeting card company. After her marriage to Charles Ulrick Bay, a multimillionaire stockbroker and investor, she took an active interest in his business affairs. In 1946, Bay was named Ambassador to Norway (he was the son of Norwegian immigrants), and for the next seven years the Bays hobnobbed with world celebrities in and out of Oslo...
...storekeeper, died. "Upon my father's death," Bridges once said, "I worked the farm and met the responsibilities of manhood through my youth." At the University of Maine he earned his board and tuition by milking cows at the agricultural college; later he helped send a younger sister and brother through college. In 1920 he moved to New Hampshire as an agricultural instructor with the state university's extension staff and an expert on crops and soil conservation for the state government...
Effervescing over the upcoming first season of her fledgling New York Mets, Major Stockholder Joan Whitney Payson, wife of Industrialist Charles Shipman Payson and sister of Publisher John Hay Whitney, assured an interviewer that her socially impeccable family had always confined its patronage to the National League. Single instance of backsliding: "The time that Wheaties was running a most-popular-player contest. Mother [the late Mrs. Payne Whitney] called the cook and asked her please to buy lots of Wheaties for the children and to clip the box tops so she could vote for Joe DiMaggio...
...South Viet Nam, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu is much more than Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem's sister-in-law and a Christian first lady in a Buddhist land. She is also a pert, sloe-eyed and strong-willed feminist who, as a member of the National Assembly, pushed through a "chastity law" that reins in freewheeling husbands and gives wives more freedom to plan their own lives. To outspoken and powerful Madame Ngo, the cheating husbands of the journalistic world are the foreign correspondents, who are not subject to the Directorate General of Information "guidance" that all South...