Word: fiances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor, the august inaugural was presided over by no less a statesman than Professional Toastmaster George Jessel, 63. Last week, entertainment's sinking showboat offhandedly admitted that the official document he had been handed at the ceremony was a paternity-suit summons slapped on him by sometime Fiancée Joan Tyler, 27. At week's end Joan assured the world, in the blase manner of Hollywood, that "George and I are not mad at each other," hinted that he might marry her when her divorce becomes final in January. Jessel's reaction to the matter...
...Shanghai I met a very brilliant young [chemistry] student. His professor was eager to retain him as a laboratory research assistant; his fiancée had a job in the municipal administration. From a list posted on the institute wall he learned that he had been ordered to a factory in remote Inner Mongolia for at least five years. He was not surprised. Of bourgeois origin, he was an 'expert' indeed, but not 'Red' enough to remain in Shanghai, a city that is still suspected of bourgeois and cosmopolitan proclivities. 'I shall work wherever...
...city's streets, jamming its clubs, they sing, samba and spray passers-by with ether, in a pleasure-madness that only exhaustion can satiate. But for Brazil's women, the Rio carnival is a rare escape from the censorious control normally exercised by fathers, husbands and fiancés. Peeling off some of their clothes and more of their inhibitions, perfectly respectable Brazilian wives and mothers become during the Rio carnival the houris of their innermost dreams...
When Wyndham Lewis' girl friend left him to become Hulme's fiancée, Lewis tracked his rival down and grabbed Hulme by the throat. Hulme picked Lewis up bodily, marched out to Soho Square and hung Lewis upside down on an iron railing by his trouser cuffs. In a graphic, impromptu way, the episode symbolized what one neo-orthodox nonconformist had done to his generation...
...father was one of the most renowned Hamlets, John Barrymore Jr., 28, has never been notably Shakespearean. But last week he made Barrymore-sized headlines after a sub-balcony performance worthy of a Greenwich Village Romeo and Juliet. At 5 a.m. he insistently rang the doorbell of his ex-fiancée, Italian Cinemactress Giorgia Moll, 21. Barrymore announced himself as the apartment porter, but Giorgia's mother, not the least bit fooled, had the cops called. When John Jr. was later haled into court on charges of housebreaking and defamation, the whole thing became clear-more or less...