Word: fortyishness
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Although Private Secretary is going great guns, Ann likes to say she would just as soon be out of it all. She says she never asked to be in show business anyway; it was all her mother's idea. Fortyish and divorced, she lives in Beverly Hills with her eight-year-old daughter Patricia, and "I hope Tish will never want to be an actress. I want her to grow up and have a lot of children so I can be a grandmother." What Ann really wants, she says, is "a man who is 40, rich and Catholic. Then...
Marriage Revealed. Sheilah Graham, fortyish, onetime London chorus girl turned Hollywood gossip columnist; and Wojciechowicz S. Wojtkiewicz, 35, a director of prison recreation programs for the California department of corrections; she for the third time, he for the first: in Ventura County, Calif...
Married. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 80 dean of Britain's composers (Sinofonia Antartica, Pilgrim's Progress); and Mrs. Ursula Wood, fortyish, widow-writer; both for the second time (his first wife died at 80 in 1951); in London...
...best temperance-tract tradition, a mere glass and a half of red wine starts Erwin Sommer, a fortyish wholesale produce dealer, on the road to an alcoholic inferno. Uneasy over business losses and unhappy with his martinet wife, he soon regards the bottle as man's best friend. He cheats to get contracts, he lies to his wife, and he pays court to a blowzy waitress whom he blearily crowns "The Queen of Alcohol...
Divorced. J. B. Priestley, 58, bestsell-mg novelist (The Good Companions), actor and playwright; by Winifred May Priestley, fortyish; after 26 years of marriage, four children; in Exeter, England...