Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though barred from Sister Fabiola's wedding, Jimmy has been swift to capitalize on it. He boasts that in Belgium alone, 600,000 copies have been sold of a record containing his compositions entitled Fabiola and Waltz of the Queen. His next ambition is to appear on Ed Sullivan's TV show. He has already written and sold his "memoirs" to a French feature syndicate. Sample: "It is true that, unlike my worthy sisters and brothers, I don't lead a well-ordered life, monotonous and without the unforeseen. But why do they throw rocks...
Miraculously, out of the flaming carnage a boy was hurled to a soft landing in a snow bank. He was eleven-year-old Stephen Baltz of Wilmette, Ill., traveling alone to meet his mother and sister in New York. Two cops rushed to him, wrapped their coats about his flaming body, rolled him in the snow. In a car bound for the hospital, the child asked again and again if he would die, and a neighborhood woman assured him that he would be all right because, she said, she had a son of his age. At the hospital...
...NEPHEW, by James Purdy. A moving and delicately controlled demonstration that even the most seemingly placid lives are sometimes tenuously suspended over the deep. An aging brother and sister discover that the nephew they had loved and raised and who died in Korea had made some dark emotional commitments beyond the old folks' understanding...
...Kennedy Jr. As the Rev. Martin J. Casey, S.J., pastor of Holy Trinity Church, intoned the words, John Jr. was held by Godmother Martha Bartlett, wife of Chattanooga Times Reporter Charles Bartlett, who was present as a stand-in for Godfather Prince Stanislas Radziwill, husband of Jackie's sister and away in London. Jackie Kennedy was predictably proud of her tiny (6 Ib. 3 oz.) son, dressed in the christening gown his father had worn 43 years ago. "Look, Jack," she whispered, "hasn't he got the loveliest eyes?" The President-elect of the U.S. seemed to think...
...their heads together. One (Renato Salvatori) is a successful baby-carriage thief. Another (Carlo Pisacane) is an old and toothless messenger boy. The third (Marcello Mastroianni) is a no-talent photographer, the fourth (Tiberio Murgia) a fiery Sicilian who thinks that everybody is trying to seduce his unmarried sister (Claudia Cardinale), the fifth (Vittorio Gassman) a preliminary bum who never hits anything but the canvas. Only the sixth (Toto), a renowned but senile safecracker, has any previous criminal experience, and when he sees the quality of his confederates, he pockets his consultant fee ($80) and backs inconspicuously...