Word: fortyish
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...line leads from Sir Richard Burton crossing the Arabian desert in 1853 and Lawrence of Arabia down to Geoffrey Moorhouse. Burton had a simple thirst for the exotic. Lawrence was a complex mystic. Moorhouse, who left Nouakchott, Mauritania, in October of 1972 heading east into the Sahara, is a fortyish ex-journalist. In challenging the desert, he was intent on confronting his own fears and what he took to be personal cowardice...
Divorced. Zeppo Marx, 72, the youngest Marx Brother (real name: Herbert), who quit the madcap vaudeville and movie team in 1934 to become an actors' agent; and Barbara Marx, fortyish, former model and current golfing and tennis pal of Frank Sinatra and Vice President Spiro Agnew; after 14 years of marriage, no children; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...Harris, Rita Hayworth, Robert Stack, Lawrence Welk, George Plimpton and, naturally Dinah. Attention seemed to be focused on the couple that tied for 15th place with Pro Donna Caponi Young and Mrs. Morton Downey. They were Frank Sinatra and Barbara Marx, the estranged wife of Zeppo Marx, a tall, fortyish blonde who has often been seen playing tennis with Spiro T. Agnew. Although Frank and Barbara have been together a lot lately, Sinatra's press agent insisted that there were no wedding plans...
Divorced. Gilbert ("Mr. 100,000 Volts") Becaud, 45, intense, high-energy French singer-composer (What Now My Love, The Day the Rains Came, Let It Be Me) and Monique ("Kiki") Nicolas Becaud, fortyish; after 20 years of marriage, three children; in Paris...
...Curses on Producer Mike Frankovich, who was so smitten with 33-year-old Actress Liv Ullmann that he lowered the age of the fortyish heroine of Forty Carats (who has an affair with a 20-year-old boy). He has copped out on us women in our 40s who have married 20-year-olds. May he be run into by lady truck drivers, may all his female associates over 40 go on strike, and may Oscar evade him forever. Why can't Hollywood leave a good thing alone...