Word: fortyishness
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Rosemary Rogers, a fortyish typist and mother of four from Fairfield, Calif., shipped Editor Coffey the manuscript of a 636-page romantic extravaganza called Sweet Savage Love. The first novel she had ever submitted for publication, it became the first of four swashbuckling herstoricals that have moved more than 10 million copies off the racks, made Rogers one of the world's bestselling authors, with a million-dollar annual income, and opened to hordes of escapists some wild new terrain...
...Wang Hung-wen, fortyish, the youthful ex-textile worker and Vice Chairman of the party who only recently had been made No. 2 man in the Politburo...
...sheen, the amiably unscrupulous characters and the spectral tugs of mysterious forces are all reassembled-and hardly the worse for wear. Maggie Radcliffe, a fortyish American rich beyond telling, is trying to rid herself of an old hanger-on named Hubert Mallin-daine. He is stubbornly settled in one of Maggie's three houses at Nemi, south east of Rome, where votaries once worshiped at the temple of Diana. Hubert claims squatter's rights on the rather shaky grounds of his alleged descent from Diana and the Emperor Caligula...
Married. Clarence M. Kelley, 64, FBI director, and Shirley Dyckes, fortyish, a former school teacher and nun; in Maggie Valley, N.C. Kelley's first wife died of cancer last November...
Engaged. Clarence M. Kelley, 64, FBI director, and Shirley Dyckes, fortyish, an elementary-school teacher in Maryland and for 15 years a nun in the Sisters of the Holy Cross. The marriage will be his second, her first. A former Kansas City chief of police, Kelley flew to Missouri each weekend after his 1973 FBI appointment to see his wife Ruby, who died of cancer last November...