Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since V-J day, the U.S. and Japan had developed a bond unique between an Occidental and an Oriental nation. The ties ranged from the nostalgic memories of Japan brought home by hundreds of thousands of ex-G.I.s to such carefully nurtured manifestations of official friendship as the "sister city" agreement concluded last month between New York and Tokyo...
...platform at Harvard's commencement, welcomed his audience with sweeping gestures and rolling Latin phrases. Turning to the ladies, he intoned: "O puellae Radcliffienses." Among the Radcliffe girls present, one smiled more happily than the rest at the words of Noel Gregson Davis, 19. She was his sister Cecile, 21. Together they had made a remarkable record. Greg had not only been chosen one of Harvard's two student commencement orators, the first Negro so honored, but was also graduating magna cum laude, while Cecile (cum laude) was elected Radcliffe class president and senior-class marshal...
...four years neither brother nor sister experienced any racial trouble. Says Gregson: "At Harvard there is no difference between people...
Married. Yaltah Menuhin, 38, piano-playing sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Pianist Hephzibah Menuhin; and Joel Ryce, 27, also a concert pianist; she for the third time, he for the first; in Sterling...
...along these lines, the reader may find any residual curiosity about the family amply answered in Daughters and Rebels, Jessica's sprightly chronicle. Some things should be settled first. What was Hitler's reaction to Jessica's elopement with Romilly when Unity told the Fuhrer, "My sister Decca has run away to Spain with the Reds"? Hitler sank his head in his hands. "Armes Kind!"1 (poor child), he sighed. What did Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, do? He dispatched a destroyer to try to break up the match...