Word: fiances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funnyman from the U.S. Embassy (Archer MacDonald), a brace of psychoanalysts (fast replacing mothers-in-law as Hollywood's stock figure of fun), and assorted Latin American production numbers. Lana's final solution to her money problems has a disarming simplicity: she gives it all to Fiancé Montalban on the theory that "now he'll have to worry about...
Fidelity. Among Kinsey's sample of women who had premarital intercourse, one-third had relations with from two to five men, more than half with only one man-and 46% only with the fiancé in the year or so before marriage. Are these women sorry? No. Whether they had later married or not, about three-fourths said they had no regrets, and 12-13% had only "minor" qualms. Among those who avoided intercourse before marriage, nine out of ten said they had done so primarily for moral reasons...
Under Wraps. Colorado-born Harold Walter went into the textile business 30 years ago against his better judgment. After graduating from the University of Colorado (21), he wanted to go into the packing business with his father, but his fiancée brought him to New England instead, to work for her father, general manager and half-owner of what was then called the Uxbridge Worsted Co. Having married the boss's daughter, Walter took a job as apprentice mill hand on a one-year trial, liked it so well that he stayed on. He advanced to overseer, superintendent...
Sage Disbelief. In this best of all possible worlds, Frut is frustrated only by his coy fiancée, who keeps stalling him off despite his stirring performances of the mating dance. Restless, he wanders to the edge of the tableland and has an experience no lizard has had before. A huge, two-legged, two-armed Thing not only picks Frut up and then drops him, but the Thing draws on the ground with a stick, making those mysterious signs-a heart pierced by an arrow-the origin of which even the Sages of the tableland are hard...
...recovered with still worse news for Tommy: her Mexican divorce was no good, and she wired her lawyer in Mexico to prove it. At week's end, with the Connecticut waiting period over, the Manville love score stood: 11 previous marriages, one presumptively legal wife, one frustrated fianc...