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...then I turned on my TV set. Susan St. James and Jane Curtin were playing the title roles in Kate and Allie, the CBS sitcom about two single mothers who share three children and one household. On that evening's episode, the duo spent most of the show in a slapstick routine climbing on their furniture after spotting a mouse on the floor, while their kids stood by, nonplussed. Seemed a little bit like something Lucy and Viv might do in The Lucy Show, when Ball and Vivian Vance played--you guessed it--two single mothers with three kids...
Even so, the justices gave custody of 22-month-old Melissa Elizabeth to her father. The Sterns, the court decided, could provide a more stable home: "Their household and their personalities promise a much more likely foundation for Melissa to grow and thrive." Last November Whitehead divorced her first husband to marry Dean Gould, and the couple is now expecting a child of their own. But the justices also restored the parental rights of Whitehead- Gould, which the trial judge had terminated, and invalidated last year's adoption of Melissa by Elizabeth Stern. By instructing a lower court to decide...
...criticism, Washington continued last week to try to stem the spread of the epidemic by educating the population at large. Before the London parley ended, the chief U.S. delegate, Assistant Health Secretary Robert Windom, announced that the Administration plans to mail a new brochure on AIDS prevention to every household in the country later this year...
...extremely noisy around our house," remembers Brother Julian. "I'd be scraping away on the cello, and Andrew would be bashing away on the piano." Adding to the happy din was John Lill, now a well-known British concert pianist, who was a member of the Lloyd Webber household and, more than anyone else, steered Andrew toward concerts and operas...
...Sanofi and the other bidders rush for Robins? The answer lies in such mundane but popular household items as Robitussin and Dimetapp cold medicines, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea-and-tick collars. Those are among the products that make Robins one of the most profitable bankrupt companies in history. In the first three quarters of 1987, Robins earned $60 million on sales of $621 million, compared with profits of $55 million on revenues of $579 million during the same period...