Word: distaff
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...will be surprising if the guardians of Women's Liberation let you get away with calling Mss. King, Court and Goolagong the big triumvirate of distaff tennis [Aug. 27]. Surely you meant to say the big triumulierate...
MONDAY: Women of the Year. Ladies' Home Journal, taking its cue from the Pudding one supposes, presents a panoply of awards to members of the distaff gender for every accomplishment from business and economy (Katherine Graham, president of the Washington Post Company) to encouraging national beautification (Mary Lasker). Also, Helen Reddy sings her unabashed libber hit, "I Am Woman." CH.7. 10 p.m. Color...
...star in P.S. 197 in Brooklyn, you had to get A s in math and gym and be just bad enough to get C s in what Mrs. Murphy, the third grade teacher, called "deportment." Kenny fit the bill and was the idol of the distaff side of class...
...distaff side, Sharon Laughlin as Brutus's wife Portia is not wholly at case in her lines. Ruby Holbrook, as Caesar's wife Calpurnia, speaks better but hasn't the remotest idea of how to react when her husband decides to go to the Senate after all on the Ides of March...
...years past, she seemed to blossom in her role of the not-so-innocent abroad. Unlike Jackie Kennedy, who tended to upstage J.F.K. in their forays abroad, Pat Nixon has proved herself a master of the very subtle art of being winning and winsome in the role of distaff stage left. "The people," she says unabashedly, "are so friendly, warmhearted and generous." The same, just as unabashedly, could be said...