Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started last July, when 16-year-old Sylvia Marie Likens was left with her sister, Jenny, 15, in the care...
...torturing Sylvia had become a neighborhood sport, with at least four other youngsters taking part. Even Shirley Baniszewski, 10, and Sister Marie, 11, joined in. So did Stephanie, 15, whom Sylvia had accused of being a prostitute. In fact, John Jr. told police, at one time or another everyone in the family except Mrs. B.'s 18-month-old baby had burned Sylvia with cigarettes. Polio-crippled Jenny Likens was occasionally forced on pain of beating to join the assault on her sister...
...where my husband goes." Meanwhile she faces a dither of prenuptial parties and arrangements. The wedding is planned as a "family event" at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Last week the White House announced that Luci Johnson's maid of honor will be Older Sister Lynda Bird-who, in denying rumors that she would soon marry Actor George Hamilton, was making Page One herself...
Phillip Thomas, the son, lives with Alice Shay, an impenetrable girl whose dead brother Raymond used to be Phillip's best friend, or, as Alice insinuates, maybe more than that. Phillip is extremely protective about his sister Lisa, who in turn lives with Martin, who is about the only straightforward character in the play...
...never the ideal teen-ager," Danny wryly recalls. But he has always been fiercely idealistic about marriage, and often brooded about his sister Grace's troubled marriage to Manuel Valtierra, a key punch operator who was once arrested for stabbing Grace more than a dozen times. Danny himself fell in love with a pretty Irish-German girl of 17, and proudly claims, "I never touched her till we were married." Today, Danny is a father, but his wife has divorced him and disappeared. He has yet to see his son, who was born while Danny was in Statesville Penitentiary...