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...Potter out of their New York apartment and begun to sing. She sings like a gelded Al Jolson. Potter, a writer, ("my stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable, if wimpy, when he sits in the shadows of his bachelor pad and listens to "The Way We Were." At his brother's urging, he joins a divorced-men's therapy group where one ex-husband plans to marry the same woman for the fourth time and another dreams, at 71, about liver-spotted female hands reaching out to squeeze...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

Potter suffers nobly the swingers and narrow-minded women of the outrageous singles scene for several weeks, but his bachelor life is not to be. He sprints to call Marilyn, assuring her that he wants only companionship, not sex. They date. Potter reacts shyly to his first post-marital kiss but returns the next night to find Marilyn setting a candlelight dinner for herself. "It looks like something you read in a book about how to be single," he kids, then whispers, "I want to have sex with you." They mate...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

Neither winner seemed prepared for the honor. At a hectic press conference, a stunned Cormack tried to describe his life. Said he: "I've always been in my little ivory tower and I'd like to get back to it." Hounsfield, a reticent bachelor whose ideas often come on his "rambles" through the countryside and whose recent purchase of a small house consumed "half my worldly wealth," so far sees only one imminent change in his life: he plans to put a laboratory in his living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Triumph of the Odd Couple | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...searching for ways to make their benefit packages more cost-efficient as well as more satisfying to employees. One innovation is the "cafeteria" plan, which allows employees to select their own benefits beyond a certain level of required medical, pension and life insurance coverage. For instance, a middle-aged bachelor might choose higher contributions to his pension plan in return for reduced medical benefits, which he does not need since he has no family. At American Can, employees can forgo, say, annual medical checkups in return for an extra week of paid vacation. Says Senior Vice President Sal Giudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Compensation Woe: How to Pay? | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Name the infielder who had an interest in Bachelor's III along with Joe Namath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube World Series Time Quiz | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

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