Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While her husband breasted the politi cal winds in Washington, Jacqueline Ken nedy, 31, deplaned hatless and coatless despite near-freezing cold at New York's La Guardia Airport, spent three gay days on the town. Usually accompanied by her sister, Princess Radziwill, wife of a Polish peer turned London businessman, Jackie looked more elegant each time she came through the revolving doors of the Carlyle Hotel. She supped with Art Dealer Harry Brooks, Fashion Editor Diana Vreeland and such socialite old friends as Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Her big evening was spent catching the popularly-priced ($3.95 top) City...
...ghetto involved here is Chicago's black belt, where Scriptwriter Hansberry lived as a child. The hero (Sidney Poitier), his wife (Ruby Dee), his twelve-year-old son (Stephen Perry), his mother (Claudia McNeil) and his sister (Diana Sands) are all jammed together in three small rooms, toilet down the hall. Wife and mother do cleaning for white folks, sister is a pre-med student, hero drives a Cadillac for a downtown business executive-and hates it. At night he paces his low-rent prison and snarls at the walls: "I got to change my life...
...actors-all the principals have been held over from the Broadway production-often seem to be shouting past the spectator, as though still playing from habit to the back row, balcony. Only Actress Dee, as the wife, projects her existence without hollering her head off. Actress Sands, as the sister, has a wonderful tomboy charm and most of the funny lines: "I'm not interested," she bellows at her Nigerian boy friend, "in being somebody's little episode in America." But Actress McNeil, worshiped by Broadway critics as an Earth Mother, too often on the screen suggests...
...only eight, selling soda pop to Sunday baseball crowds near his home in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. When his father died in the Depression, the twelve-year-old boy took a paper route and an after-school job in a service station to help his mother and sister pay the bills. He never got to college...
...stroke; in New York City. Marcosson wrote some 30 books, including David Graham Phillips and His Times, a 1932 biography of the muckraking reporter who was shot down in 1911 while strolling in Manhattan's Gramercy Park by a crazed violinist who imagined that Phillips had defamed his sister in print. Marcosson was a friend of Phillips and the "tried and loyal friend" of Phillips' sister, who in 1932 left the author $729,286 in her will...