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Medicinal Value. Edith Foster Farwell of Lake Forest, Ill., who has written three books on herbs, believes that many young people are turning to herbal medicines because they distrust most pharmaceutical products. "I get a lot of letters from people who want me to cure this or that," she says. One of her most frequent requests is for a potion to cure warts; she recommends juice from the celandine plant, which was used for that purpose in colonial times...
...made her screen debut at 60, playing a wrinkled cardsharpie in The Queen of Spades. Now 87, veteran Stage Actress Dame Edith Evans seemed as peppery as ever last week on the sets of Cinderella, her 17th movie, currently being filmed in London. "When we get to the ballroom scene, I do trust I'm going to be allowed to dance?" asked Dame Edith, who portrays a dowager queen opposite Richard Chamberlain as Prince Charming and Gemma Craven as Cinderella. With London suffering through one of its muggiest summers in years, the indomitable Dame has been arriving for work...
...Edith said it best: It's more important to have a good divorce than a good marriage because it lasts longer," reflected Author Clifford Irving. Even so, Irving, 44, and his wife, 39, seem to have settled for just an estrangement. Since serving 17% months in jail for masterminding the Great Howard Hughes Hoax of 1972, Irving has been living in East Hampton, Long Island, where he is "plugging away on a novel." Edith has retreated to the Spanish island of Ibiza. Although she painted in prison, Edith abandoned her craft for almost a year after her release...
...Edith Breakman a member of the committee testified yesterday that when she began working in the Medical Area in 1965, the only correspondence she remember receiving was from the Medical Area personnel office...
...efficient, but a strange woman...she's donating her body to science fiction"), and Matthew Gamser is appropriately straightforward as the bassest soprano since The Love for Three Oranges. Best of all, I think, is Peter Zurkow as the perpetually befuddled queen, a well-meaning though not very intelligent Edith Bunker of a monarch who wants to turn back from her escape because she forgot to turn the stove off, and who pours the royal treasury's last gold into a rift in the earth because she's "always been generous to a fault...