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Margaret Mead: But motherhood is the highest form of creation. Housework is artistry, cooking is magic. A woman must be a creative genius to fill her role. All of men's accomplishments are but mere compensations for not being able to give birth. Womb envy...
Itsy-Poo. In private life, Mary is a quite believable housewife who can't stand housework at all, except for scrubbing floors ("You forget all your troubles and everything except getting that floor clean"),'hates most cooking (beyond fried eggs and melted-cheese sandwiches). And while she is an NBC executive's wife with an eight-year-old son, she says without qualification: "I am a career girl. I couldn't be happy living Laura's life. If I wasn't an actress, I'd have to be doing something else...
...boosts too. But because Wilson is telling labor to hold the wage lines, he virtuously halved the committee's proposed raise for ministers, who now would go from $14,000 to $23,800. The Prime Minister, whose thrifty wife has fired the cook and does much of the housework herself, would go from...
...cards about a young bachelor publisher who likes a white fuzzy drink called Cotton Gin and keeps a portable fireplug in his Jaguar XKE to help create parking spaces. Last week he was publishing a book called The Fraudulent Female, which claimed that women criminally exaggerate the burden of housework. To prove its thesis to a potentially dangerous female critic, he went off with her for a weekend on Staten Island, where he did all the chores for a family of five. Impossible as it may seem, the show was amusing, but only because Tony Franciosa, as the publisher, delivered...
...swimming seven years after surgery. Dr. Brunschwig's most extreme case was a woman who lost many internal organs, including the left kidney, plus all related lymph nodes, along with her left leg and hind quarter. Eight years later she is living happily and doing all her own housework...