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...customer recently mentioned his wife's name to a Moran salesman in the course of looking at a car. "Helen!"' cried the salesman rapturously. "That's the dearest name in all the world to me because that happens to be the name of my wife." "There's the Monster." Moran-whose own wife is Arline-lives in a sprawling, nine-room ranch house in Lincolnwood. a Chicago suburb, with Arline and the three children (two girls, a boy). He has three motorboats. a summer home in the country and a winter home in Florida...
...mother, kept the couple all but separated during a four-year courtship. He was in Vienna, she was in Hamburg, and 19th century epistlemanship demanded a letter a day. Freud gushed anguished longing and Dutch-uncle lectures to his loved one. Martha was "my sweet princess," "highly esteemed princess," "dearest highly esteemed little princess," and "Your Sigmund" sent her "100,000 kisses, all of which are to be cashed." A penniless knight-errant, Freud was quite a gallant: "What can it be that you want ... a tooth out of the Caliph's jaw, a jewel from Queen Victoria...
dash and space. The scientists' dearest wish is to break the code in order to find what sequence of bases leads to a given genetic result, such as red hair in humans. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
...pleaded Richard Combs, 25, a husky sheet-metal worker of Old Bridge, N.J. But the plea was not enough for New Jersey's Board of Child Welfare. Last week, in the state's second highest court, the board moved to deny Gloria and Dick Combs's dearest desire-to adopt their foster child, a gay, elfin four-year-old. The board's reason: Alice Marie, according to social workers, is too bright to remain in the Combses' "television-centered" household...
There have been occasions in the past when you have dealt with me unkindly, and your unkind cuts have been read by myself and my closest friends and relatives and many of my dearest enemies. It seems a shame, therefore, that when an opportunity arose to write "well done"-or at least "medium well"-you failed...