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...point last week. Blondie (NBC, Fri. 8 p.m., E.S.T.) carried its own comic-strip pedigree. Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, Fri. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) offered husband-and-wife Hollywood stars playing husband-and-wife Hollywood stars. Howard Duff as a vain boob, Ida Lupino as the archetypically wise better-half. Except for wife Lupino's acerbic way with a line, it never got off the comic page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Kudos & Choler | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...sages were indeed wiser than we thought. Woman thy name is mystery. The Summer School boasts two such acquaintances. A women with a husband and a women with a past. And the former is just as reticent on the subject of her better-half as the second is one the subject of her better days. PRUE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night And Day | 7/18/1933 | See Source »

...Women are now admitted to all the privileges of Harvard College. Eastward the star of education takes its way. Kansas, from the first, founded her university on the better-half theory. . . . . We are almost at a loss to understand why it is that in these latter days Harvard College has fallen heir to so many adverse criticisms, not from its enemies alone, but from its friends. Either its recent history has been one of rapid retrograde, or else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

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