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...Annie is fine except for a slight learning disability," one mother wrote. "Charlie was stuffing Cracker Jacks up his nose today with Carey Allen's assistance. They tried shaving a couple of months ago. Between the school's Halloween carnival (chairmanship, of course), a pumpkin pie in the oven and the twins, here is a very big thank you. I am selfish, I certainly swear, and we sure laugh a lot!" -By John Skow. Reported by William McWhirter/Phoenix
...hasn't changed a lot. You're talking about someone who has been writing a personal column since she was twelve or 13 years old." Bombeck had been fairly offhanded about singing and dancing, but wising off in print was the best thing since soaping windows at Halloween. A couple of years later she was at it again, clowning about shoplifting, clearance sales and the lunch menu for the newsletter of Rike's department store, where she worked to pay college expenses. "You can't imagine how it fractured those people," she says now. "I knew...
DIED. Ronald O'Bryan, 39, the so-called Candy Man killer, who was convicted in 1975 of poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween sweets; by execution (a lethal injection of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride); in Huntsville, Texas...
...back of the store, behind the usual selection of old clothing and jewelry. The Wandering Eye has a costume rental department. For $15 to $25 a day, you can rent out a beaded dress, a ball gown, or a feather boa. And they aren't in demand just at Halloween, says owner Emily McAdoo: "I'm surprised at the evidence of really interesting parties that go on here all year round." She has outfitted groups going to a medieval wedding party and a "Vicars and Tarts" party, as well as the usual Roaring '20s fetes...
Over at Buckingham Palace, meanwhile, the reigning royal catch himself, Prince Andrew, was being entertained on his 24th birthday by the family of his latest lovely, Katie Rabett, 23. Andrew, who met the bonny Rabett at a Halloween party last year, is said to have received the nod of approval from the Queen, who was not at all amused by his earlier, well-publicized adventures with Starlet Koo Stark. For their part, Katie's parents (he is a well-established London gynecologist) seemed to have no objections. Their daughter, who has modeled and acted...