Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They could play a mean game of mixed doubles. Papa George, 46, was a promising righthanded baseball pitcher until he injured his elbow and took up tennis-mainly because it was the only one-armed game he knew of. Now he is a lefthanded teaching pro. Mama Betty, 42, is...
All Cliché, All True. The view from Lauren Bacall Bogart Robards' high-ceilinged fourth-floor apartment in the Dakota, Manhattan's imposing fortress of old-world luxury, is the dense green foliage of Central Park. For Betty Bacall, as her friends call her, the view from the...
At this moment, Betty Bacall is delighted with her life. "I've waited for this for 40,000 years," she says, meaning Broadway stardom. "It was my teen-age dream." Actually, it is her third career. Born in New York of a Russian-Polish medical-supplies salesman and his...
"If two people love each other," Hemingway once wrote, "there can be no happy end to it," meaning one must die before the other. "Being a widow is no picnic," says Betty Bacall, "you lose your place," a shattering experience that has befallen 1,900,000 women in the 40...
So Betty Bacall issued a brisk ultimatum to herself: "Damn it, straighten up! Pull yourself together and point yourself in the right direction. MOVE!" The move was back to work: "It helped me enormously. There's always something about making a decision in your life. It takes a load...