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When Howard and Martha stopped at the small-town Pennsylvania hotel one snowy evening, it was only to make a phone call. They were both fortyish and married, though not to each other. But they were in love, the real thing at last. Howard Pomfret speaks to Martha just the way O'Hara has learned to write from Ernest Hemingway: "It was so long ago, Girl. I don't want to remember her, I want to be with you. You're my last love, my final love." A few drinks, car trouble, and the blizzard outside decide...
Columnist Doris Fleeson, fortyish, witty and lively, learned the columning trade while teamed up with ex-husband John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, now goes it alone in 72 papers. Her "interpretive articles," as she calls them, make informative reading, thanks to her well-used pipelines to congressional offices and the Democratic National Committee. She attends no off-the-rec-ord conferences, yet frequently knows what the Administration is up to before many of its brasshats...
Divorced. Robert Penn Warren, 46, Rhodes scholar, poet turned professor, and Pulitzer Prize novelist (All the King's Men); and Emma Brescia Warren, fortyish; after almost 21 years of marriage; in Reno...
Divorced. C. Day Lewis, 46, Irish-born British poet-critic, new Oxford professor of poetry (TIME, Feb. 26); by Constance Mary King Day Lewis, fortyish, who charged misconduct; after 22 years of marriage, two sons; in Southampton, England...
...talked, Wu had sat tense as a coiled spring. In appearance, the Wu at whom the statesmen and television viewers stared for an answer bore no resemblance to his master in Peking. Where Mao is fat, moonfaced, stooped and aging (at 57), Wu is well-knit, slant-headed and fortyish. Wu's hands were clasped in the lap of a cheap black suit. As many Orientals do, he betrayed his tension by nervous knee-knocking. When he rose, Austin quickly had his answer: Wu offered war or surrender. Not his knees, but a large part of the free world...