Word: douglasses
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...trees for nourishment and killing small branches by laying eggs in them. They also mess up lawns with their 2-in.-long bodies. Vulnerable sapling oaks and fruit trees can easily be protected with a covering of cheesecloth. "They're more of a nuisance than anything else," says Douglass Miller, an entomologist with the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md. "They do less damage than a good pruning...
...this time occasionally mumbling "What day is it?" and in the company of a woman with a troubled past. His mind enfeebled by Alzheimer's disease, Bing, now 85, has been living for the past week in a modest two-story bungalow on the island of Anguilla with Carroll Douglass, fortyish, whom he met last year. If she is to be believed, the two are "totally in love" and on their honeymoon; if Bing's court-appointed protectors are to be believed, Bing, a widower and childless, is being victimized by a mentally confused woman. Whatever the legal resolution...
Sometimes Douglass claims Bing introduced himself to her at a Met performance of Parsifal; at other times she says they met in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building. Bing, whose mental acuity apparently started to decline seriously after his wife of 54 years died in 1983, began writing checks to Douglass. The spending caught the eye of Lawyer Paul Guth, a longtime associate whom Bing once designated to be in charge of his personal affairs in the event he became incapacitated. Concerned, Guth filed a petition to declare Bing incompetent; a legal guardian and conservator were appointed, and Bing...
...alone in thinking her mentally disturbed. In 1982 a District of Columbia judge appointed Douglass's brother and sister conservators of her affairs on the ground that, among other things, she "had acquired a romantic and unreasonable fixation for the person of the Pope." According to court documents, she once tried to become the Pontiff's helicopter pilot and attempted to purchase Rolls-Royces...
...Douglass sits in the bungalow's tiny kitchen and talks about hiring a barrister, Sir Rudolf stares into the distance and seems happy enough. He calls her "Carroll sweetheart" but usually talks only when prompted by her, saying a few lucid words before sliding again into a kind of dreamy trance. Sir Rudolf may not be in Anguilla after all, but back home at the Met, savoring a favorite performance of La Traviata or something he said to Maria Callas...