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...second problem is her son Homer (David Rounds), who has clung to her apron strings for 40 years, not without her complicity. Homer, a man of glacial agility, is bringing Myrtle Brown (Lois de Banzie) home with him. She is a girl he has known for twelve years, dated for seven and been engaged to for five, without his parents' ever having seen...
...profile Maugham wished to project, but the often caustic, seldom genuinely charming man, obsessed with his literary shortcomings--he considered himself a failure for not winning a Nobel Prize--and haunted by his own homosexuality and his fear of public exposure. Born during the reign of Queen Victoria, he clung to Edwardian values of keeping up appearances; he had many affairs with women, and eventually married and fathered a child, for propriety's sake alone. Even during the fifties and early sixties, until the time of his death, he took pains to conceal "the love that dares not speak...
Speaking to the National Press Club last week, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller clung hopefully to a prediction that inflation will average only 11% to 12% this year. With a quarter of the year gone, this implies a drop well below 10% by the end of 1980, lower than most private economists think is conceivable. But other Administration economists concede that even when or if energy and housing costs stabilize and the budget is balanced, inflation will remain high for a long time...
...where he was hoisted aboard. "Everything happened so fast, so suddenly." Emergency flares lit up the nighttime skies as British, German and Norwegian helicopters and a flotilla of ships rushed to the scene. Fighting heavy seas and winds, they struggled to rescue those who had clambered into lifeboats, clung desperately to heaving dinghies or plunged into the near freezing...
...point, the Crimson Clung to a tenuous 4-3 lead, fifth-slotted Geordie Lemmon trailed 0-1 in games, and 1-8 in the second contest. But Lemmon showed his mettle by rebounding to reel off nine straight points, and thereafter had little trouble disposing...