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Georgia Frontiere, Los Angeles Rams owner, explaining why she fired Stepson Steve Rosenbloom as the team's vice president: "I didn't know where the money was going. Once I got a bill for $10,000. Steve had bought cowboy boots for all the players...
MARRIED BY PROXY. Alexei Semyonov, 24, graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University and stepson of exiled Soviet Dissident and Physicist Andrei Sakharov; and Liza Alexeyeva, 25, Moscow mathematician who has been barred from emigrating from the Soviet Union; he for the second time, she for the first; in Butte, Mont., because the state is one of the few to recognize proxy marriages. Semyonov, who has lived in the U.S. since 1978, spoke his vows to Alexeyeva's stand0-in, Edward Kline, editor of the Russian-language publishing house, Khronika Press...
...received a 13-stitch leg wound there. The two joined another pair of Ranger sailors in suing the Navy for brutality and violation of their rights. A third suit may be filed by the Rev. Robert Mercer and his wife of Detroit. The body of Mercer's stepson Bernal Johnson, 21, was found in a Philippine river on April 24, two days after he escaped from a CCU at the Subic Bay Naval Base. An autopsy showed "possible marks of violence" around the neck. Mercer suspects naval foul play: "My son was a good swimmer, unless he was pushed...
Life and a late marriage take her ultimately to Kiev. She is there in 1941 when the Germans invade and order all Jews to board trains for Palestine. Half Jewish, Lisa accepts this opportunity to get her Jewish stepson out of the ghetto. Their true destination is a ravine that will serve as a mass grave. Their end is ghastly...
Except that, in this novel, they do not end. In the final chapter, Lisa and her stepson arrive at a place that might be Palestine. Refugees are streaming in, including friends whom Lisa thought dead. Oddly, Freud, who died in 1939, is there too, as is her mother, who perished in a hotel fire decades earlier. The two women walk and talk calmly about the mother's infidelities and the daughter's response, so many years ago. Their milk flows. They are happy, beyond pleasure and pain...