Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graeme Thorne, the ?100.000 boy." he boasted to classmates. One morning last month, neatly turned out in his Scots College uniform. Graeme Thorne called goodbye to his 3½-year-old sister Belinda and started toward the corner 300 yards from home, where a schoolmate's mother was to pick him up for the drive to school. A few minutes later the carpool mother called to ask: ''Isn't Graeme coming to school today? He wasn't at the corner...
...sale: Bing's 14-room seashore mansion, built in 1948, overlooking California's Pebble Beach Golf Course. Asking price: $250,000. Since the Crosby clan operates as a sort of junior cartel, the real estate agent on the deal is Mary Rose Pool, Bing's sister...
...Senate confirmation as U.N. delegate. Republicans are eager to have him take over at the U.N. so that Lodge can get on to politicking. And on the Democratic side, Wadsworth has a champion in Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, who is married to Wadsworth's sister...
...Rangoon last week Burmese customs men proudly reported their "biggest haul since 1952": the discovery of $31,000 in smuggled gold aboard the Dolpheverett, a Liberian-registered freighter operated by California's Everett-Orient Line. In Calcutta the Dolpheverett's sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...
...suffers periodic, crippling talent raids not only by its wealthy rivals but by the other papers in the Scripps-Howard chain; the Press has lost three managing editors in the last ten years. All this might be expected to give the Press a real weak-sister inferiority complex. Not so: it happens to be the brashest, liveliest and most voluble paper in town...