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...teetotaling daughter can brim with feminine charm. She constantly experiments with new hairdos (last week it was short and curly), can often be seen in a crowded New Delhi market munching ecstatically on the spicy Bengali yummy known as chaat. Though not conventionally devout, she always carries in her handbag a pocket edition of India's most sacred scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. She has always refused to run for Parliament, though she would be an unbeatable candidate, explaining that she considers "the role of mother more important." Nonetheless, Indira tilts tirelessly at the myth that Indian women are delicate...
...radio transmitter that slips easily into the jacket pocket or handbag, transmits nearby voices to a receiver three blocks away...
...Lady Bird Johnson-strictly in the time she could spare from shopping, entertaining, and running a household-was able to run up the contents of her handbag into a $5,000,000 estate [Nov. 29]. Such talents ought to be applied more widely. If J.F.K. thought it not robbery to make his brother Attorney General, then by golly L.B.J. owes it to the nation to make his wife Secretary of the Treasury! We may be able to shake this national debt thing...
...Viscount Montgomery's El Alamein campaign got together in London for a reunion, who better to entertain the troops than the old desert queen herself? Flying in from rainswept Paris, Marlene left reporters gaping as she appeared in a fawn-hued raincoat, tall black boots with giant handbag to match-and a slouch-brimmed sou'wester. Having carried that off, she later headed for the show rehearsal in wrist-to-ankle blue jeans. But no need to fret, chaps. By show time she was in uniform-a clinging, flesh-colored gown, and when she huskily intoned Lili Marlene...
Perfectly Good Nails. Arthur Lewis' lively and detailed study of Hetty and the fortune she fostered raises some interesting psychological questions. What meaning, for instance, did money have for a woman who carried her cash-often only a few crumpled dollar bills-in a handbag tied around her waist? Who avoided taking a bath, probably in order to save soap, and who laboriously extracted "perfectly good nails" from a broken sled and saved them for some vague future use? Who spent half the night looking for a 2? postage stamp she had mislaid? At a time when Hetty maintained...