Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pageant of President Eisenhower's official tour, one American woman had a spotlight all to herself. The only trouble was that Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 33, is the kind of woman who would much prefer to avoid the spotlight. But as wife of Major John Eisenhower, daughter-in-law of the President, and (in Mamie's absence) a kind of unofficial U.S. First Lady on the trip, Barbara Eisenhower began to relax last week and have a happy time...
...Alley, Koerner says, "makes woman the real heroine of existence; man only pulls the ropes. But here we have the wrong scenery for the right occasion, for the great human experience of love and fruition...
...aggressive to cover up that awful shyness." But what bothers her most about those years is the memory of someone else winning the school drama medal. The teacher's explanation-that the winner of her choice needed encouragement more than Anne-still rings false. The grown woman seethes with rage and searches for understanding of her girlhood slight...
...little girl and the grown woman seemed to recognize each other at once. Like Anne's, Patty Duke's childhood belonged to the streets of New York. Her father (a taxi driver) and her mother (a checker at Schrafft's) were separated; before Patty got her first TV roles, the family teetered on the edge of poverty. In Miracle Worker, it was Anne to whom Patty looked for approval; it was Anne who became her particular pal. Soon, says Arthur Penn, "Patty and Anne were carrying on conversations in the manual alphabet behind our backs, cracking jokes...
...wealthy woman now, with a $150,000-a-year income, but she gets only a $50-a-week allowance from her business manager. When she does not cook aftertheater snacks for herself, she relies on what Mamma sends down from Yonkers, where the Italianos now live. She owns Manhattan real estate, has an interest in a California bank and a Texas oil well, but she keeps warm by huddling in the kitchen of her Greenwich Village apartment, with both stove and oven going full blast...