Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trust fund, headlined in that Depression year as the "Poor Little Rich Girl." Mother was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, one of the most publicized Continental gadabouts of the day, who lost the fight for her daughter's custody-except for weekends (with Christmas and July tossed in)-to her sister-in-law, wealthy Art Patroness Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...
...Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists and the malevolent Communists, C.R. last month founded a conservative political party known as the Freedom Party. Among its supporters: anti-Nehru Bombay Businessman Raja Hutheesingh, who is married to Nehru's younger sister, Krishna...
Though he was born a German, the British scarcely questioned the devotion of young Refugee Klaus Fuchs to democratic principles. His father was a Quaker theologian who had successively defied both the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler; his sister killed herself after helping her husband escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Young Fuchs was a brilliant theoretical physicist, won doctorates at both Bristol and Edinburgh. When World War II broke out, 31-year-old Fuchs, after first being interned in Canada, became a naturalized British subject and was soon recruited for Britain's secret atomic research program...
Innocents Abroad. In sharp contrast, Johansson had turned his training into what often seemed like a lark in the country. He moved into a $100,000 cottage at the celebrity-wooing Grossinger's in the Catskills. From Sweden he imported his parents, his brothers, his sister, his brother's fiancee and his own fiancee of five years' standing-in-waiting, Birgit Lundgren, a comely and compact brunette of 23. With Birgit on his mighty right arm, Johansson even made occasional forays into the nightclub whirl of Manhattan. In the gym Johansson worked hard on the bags...
...trouble begins at about that point. Secretly, she is not at all sure she loves the man; she is not at all sure what love is. And he runs into a hornet's nest at home. His sister, who has kept house for him since the death of his wife, sobs bitterly: "My whole life, my whole life I gave up!" And his book-smart daughter, blissfully unaware of her own father fixation, sweetly explains to him why his behavior is "neurotic...