Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Polyneices' sister Antigone went to her death trying to give him a proper burial has anyone had as much trouble getting interred as the late showman Billy Rose. For 20 months, Billy's mortal remains have lain in temporary storage while his two sisters, Polly and Miriam, fought with his executors over how much should be paid for his mausoleum, and by whom. Now the body has been entombed at last, in a $125,000 white granite shrine in a Westchester County, N.Y., cemetery. The inscription reads: "Billy Rose-the fabulous legend who is really real...
...come in asking for it that both stores have had to reorder. With various pediatricians and child psychologists coming to the defense of Little Brother as a perfectly natural play doll "unless adult reaction makes it unnatural play," Creative Playthings is now seriously considering giving Little Brother a "Little Sister." And she will come equipped with everything that is a perfectly natural part of any four-month-old little sirl...
...Grateful Recognition." Now, nearly two years later, De Bella has yet to see a cent of his inheritance. The will leaving everything to him naturally also disinherited a number of relatives. One, Mrs. Elise Baldwin, sister to Alice Atwood, is contesting the new will. Also contesting is Miss Atwood's lawyer, Thomas Hart Fisher, who came up with the news that an earlier will had left the estate to him "in grateful recognition of the many years during which he has been my friend, counselor and attorney." Fisher contends that the new will is invalid since Miss Atwood...
Oscar Hubbard (E. G. Marshall) is a mean, vindictive half-man who vents his malice by slapping his genteel, alcoholic wife Birdie (Margaret Leighton). Oscar's brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders...
Professors on several campuses challenged Buckley to open debate-only to find, to their consternation, that the boy could talk as well as he could write. He left behind him some badly bloodied academic reputations. Taking the cue from Brother, Sister Patricia wrote a magazine article criticizing Vassar for being too leftist; another sister, Aloise, uncovered some "Communists" on the Smith campus and urged the alumnae to stop contributing to the college until the matter was investigated. Unlike the Yalies, however, the Smithies could not have cared less...