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...would-be husband. The man she thinks she loves is Hari Sahni, a fellow announcer with a neat little Clark Gable mustache. But Mama Chakravarty, like Mama Morgenstern, has no intention of letting her daughter marry a no-good. A widow, she marches Amrita straight off to stern old grandpa for a verbal rattanning: "I have enquired into the young man's family. The result was not satisfactory...
...husband and myself. I feel that the last paragraph of this article demands an explanation inasmuch as we are the grandparents of 15 wonderful children and far be it from me, and I am sure from TIME also, to give them false ideas as to the "naughtiness" of grandpa and grandma at the ripe ages of 75 and 55. So here is the story of the Amsterdam episode...
...Britain since Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941, pink-cheeked Financial Wizard Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 78, now a rapidly rising Düsseldorf banker, moseyed into London. In and out of courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany's booming postwar recovery? "When you start from zero...
Since a Type I wife is a "rare flower," a likely alternative is "Type II . . . a much commoner species." Pretty, educated and sensitive, she adds to rather than fits into the farm scene, is more suitable for the farmer who inherited his land from grandpa than for the poor but ambitious tiller of the soil. For her, intelligence and education are not necessarily handicaps; she "should be able to carry on a conversation with either the hired hand or a banker whose note is due . . . She should look well in blue jeans. It's not good if she runs...
...grandpa's seven granddaughters (Athena, Minerva. Niobe, Aphrodite, Calliope, Medea and Ceres) run a yoghurt, blackstrap and spinach-juice store, and after hours they take their eurythmics in the grove. Grandpa is delighted to meet Adam ("I liked the look of your sartorius muscle as soon as I saw you"), and invites him to a meal of peanutburgers. That night Athena sends Adam home with tokens of her love: a bag of raw vegetables and a bar bell...