Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nowhere. The younger brother of Actress Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty has come up without his sister's help. Intelligent, tall, and slouchingly hand some, with dark, windy hair, Warren shows little of Shirley's wild effusiveness, and he has yet to demonstrate that he is as good a performer-but he is the better looking of the two, and he knows it. He has a firm but nonchalant acting style ("Method? No, I just act") that belies his vanity. During the shooting of Splendor in the Grass, he whipped out a pocket comb every time the camera made...
...with 4,165,000 circulation), Woman's Home Companion (4,225,000 when it died by the same stroke of the Crowell-Collier ax), Country Gentleman (which perished in 1955 with 2,566,000 circulation). Only last month, Esquire administered the coup de grâce to its sister publication, Coronet, which had a paid circulation of 3,122,628. Some of the newcomers have begun to die off too: The American Gun perished this summer after three issues; Music, planned as a hard-cover bimonthly covering the field from jazz to opera, still lacks financial support...
...Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National Rifle Association. Lenore's kid sister Candy, 16, is the 1960 U.S. junior champion, was runner-up last year to Lenore for the senior title...
Died. Julia Mood Peterkin, 80, patrician South Carolina authoress ("I am not a literary person; my career is the plantation"), whose Scarlet Sister Mary, a folk tale of a Negro woman "in a patient struggle with fate," won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; of heart disease; in Orangeburg...
...daughter were murdered. Surviving somehow, Sol escaped to the U.S. and prosperity; but at 45 he is a grey echo of a man. By day he shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading Chekhov and Tolstoy in Russian...