Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read like a scene from The Loves of Isadora. Vanessa Redgrave soared into London last week with her latest companion, Italian Star Franco Nero, and breezily admitted that they are expecting a child next September. "I doubt very much if we shall get married," said the star, adding, "I don't think marriage would make me a very nice person to live with" (her marriage to Director Tony Richardson ended in divorce in 1967). Well, then, will the prospective parents be sharing a household? "Oh, we don't live together," replied the doting mother of two. "I live...
Stubborn Search. Van de Kamp and his assistants found the Barnard plan ets by using a classical astronomical technique: searching for irregularities in the path of a celestial body, a wobble that might be caused by the gravitational pull of a dark, unseen companion. As early as 1844, for example, astronomers concluded from wobbles in the path of Sirius that the bright star was accompanied through space by a star too faint to be seen from earth. The same technique has been used to establish that several other apparently single stars are actually members of a binary sys tem; they...
Though blind and deaf from the age of two, one of the late Helen Keller's favorite pastimes was writing and receiving letters, which she would "read" by having a companion either spell them manually into the palm of her hand or recite them aloud while Miss Keller touched her lips and throat and interpreted the vibrations. Recently it was announced that some 50,000 pieces of her correspondence have been bequeathed to the American Foundation for the Blind. "Are you really 70 years old?" she wrote to Mark Twain on his birthday in 1905. "Or is the report...
Among the tributes from abroad, one of the most heartfelt was a message from Charles de Gaulle, the last of the towering figures of World War II. "For me," said De Gaulle, "I see disappear with great sadness a dear companion in arms and a friend." Despite his differences with the U.S., the French President was the first foreign head of state to announce that he would fly to Washington for the funeral. Scrawled in the book of condolences at the American embassy in Paris was a message from an unknown Frenchman: "To General Eisenhower, in deep homage also...
Like numerous Victorians, Lear was superficially normal and enviable. He kept a wonderful cat whom he immortalized under the preposterous name of Foss, as magical a literary companion in its way as Dr. Johnson's Hodge or Christopher Smart's Jeoffrey. He had enduring friends, including Tennyson and a man called Chichester Fortescue, a real name that sounds like a Lear invention. Lear's peregrinations over 30 years ranged from Calais to the coast of Coromandel, a course which enabled him to work at his art-essentially the trade of providing souvenirs of the Grand Tour...