Word: fortyishness
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More gripping than symphonies and sausages is sex. Through Nunne, Gerard meets Gertrude Quincey, a svelte but fortyish virgin. Her panting, 17-year-old niece Caroline goes to bed with Gerard first, but auntie soon follows. Author Wilson's handling of the love scenes may be summed up in one cozy Briticism ("Her mouth tasted like warm tea"). Some of Nunne's other friends are very different cups of tea, notably, a red-mopped painter named Oliver Glasp, who dilly-Dalis between nudes and Crucifixions. Wilson's defense of such characters is clearly Terence's "Nothing...
...circus performers and miscellaneous nightclub entertainers (ranging from Red Skelton at $40,000 per week to a chorus boy at $75). Sporting pearl tie pin, jeweled cuff links and charcoal-grey suit, Bright quickly earned a reporter's nickname, "Blackie." Against him stood Blondie herself-Actress Penny Singleton, fortyish, who was up for re-election as A.G.V.A. president. Said she, weepily: "I'm just a little 114-lb. girl going in there alone...
...author's odd conclusion is perhaps colored by the fact that Perry Madoc is all girl, and a parson's daughter. Anne Humphreys by name, she is a fortyish Welsh woman, chose the house of Collins as her English publisher "because you publish the Book of Common Prayer...
Slim, attractive, fortyish Denise Duval, who once sang (fully clothed) at the Folies-Bergere, repeated the triumph she scored in the opera's debut early this month in Paris. Says Singer Duval: "This is a true role. I don't have to invent attitudes. It's happened...
Marriage Revealed. Donald Marr Nelson, 70, World War II boss of the War Production Board; and Lena Peters Schunzel. fortyish, widow of Actor-Director Reinhold Schunzel; he for the fifth time, she for the third; in Durham...