Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brooded and developed a facial tic. The Queen ate little, leaving her untouched trays out on the terrace to feed the birds. There were no 7 p.m. phone calls from the Shah, routine on previous trips. Soraya could reflect on the fate of her predecessor, Queen Fawzia, sister of Egypt's former King Farouk. She was able to give the Shah only a daughter, and was divorced (in 1948). But the Shah is reportedly deeply in love with the svelte Soraya (as he was not with Fawzia), and she with...
Aboard the Columbine III with her. Mamie had brought a cook, her personal secretary, her maid, half a dozen Secret Service agents, her sister "Mike" (wife of retired Army Lieut. Colonel George Gordon Moore), and an old friend. Mrs. Ellis D. Slater (wife of the retired president of Frankfort Distillers Corp.). The management's delicate logistics problem was how to post secret Secret Service men so that they 1) could guard Mamie while she was in or near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find...
...raise Theodore ("Teedie"), a brother and two sisters amid days in which, sister Corinne recalled, "the hours flew on golden wings." But Theodore, as he grew older, was nonetheless a boy sorely beset. "I was a sickly, delicate boy," he wrote, "and suffered much from asthma. One of my memories is ... of sitting up in bed gasping, with my father and mother trying to help me." His arm muscles were so weak that he could not stand up to other youngsters. One day his father encouraged him: "You have the mind but not the body . . . You must make your body...
...novel) deals with a classic stage theme: a fight over a will. It uses classic combatants: the disinherited black sheep and his self-righteous brother. As the glib playboy with a rusting charm (Richard Basehart) and the sententious prig with a rankling virtue (Kevin McCarthy) trade slurs-while their sister (Mildred Natwick) waves an olive branch -they lay siege to the holdings in the family vault via the skeletons in the family closet. Out, eventually, clatter illegitimacies and suicides and a crushed father image. And the disinherited playboy, at the end, has wangled twenty grand, only to spurn...
...Pennsy's wintertime problems, and those of its sister roads, were one more symptom of the basic ill health of U.S. railroads. Faced with over-regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission and increasingly tough competition from trucks and airlines, they have not been able to earn the money they need to keep up the kind of service the U.S. expects and demands. In January, said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes, gross revenues slipped 15.5% from a year ago to $69.4 million, leaving the line with its third monthly deficit ($2,527,222) in a row. And to underscore...