Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never did. Settling down to husband his fortune, he raised chickens, sat in his front-porch rocker shelling pecans and rubbernecking at the tourists who came to rubberneck at him. Plain-spoken to the last, he always regretted having given up his Speaker's role for the vice-presidency, which he said "wasn't worth a pitcher of warm spit...
...plays an occasional round of golf, spends a day at the seaside or mountains and takes bicycle rides near his home, during which he sometimes scolds neighbors who do not keep their property tidy. Suharto's wife Titi (Sukarno had seven wives in all) often appears beside her husband in public, dutifully entertains diplomats' wives and has exhibited a matronly determination of her own by stripping Merdeka Palace of Sukarno's collection of nude paintings...
...Rutherford, 75, hasn't chortled once. The grand old actress fractured a thigh when she tripped on a rug in her hotel room in Rome, and had to be flown to London for an emergency operation. Dame Margaret is mad as a wasp about the whole thing, said Husband Stringer Davis. "She had been swimming every day near Rome, and is furious that the fall has put an end to that for the time being...
Workshop for Experiment. Much of the company's inventive outlook is directly traceable to its patroness. St. Louis-born Rebekah Harkness, 52, launched the troupe in 1964 with $2,000,000 from a foundation set up with the Standard Oil legacy of her first husband, William Hale Harkness, who died in 1954. Mrs. Harkness, who by family request retired as a dancer at 19, has long made her summer home at Watch Hill, R.I., a workshop for ballet experiments. Until 1964, its showpiece was Robert Jeffrey's troupe (TIME, Oct. 6), which she cut adrift when...
...reminiscent of the bar in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. The narrator hero (Warren Berlinger) recalls how from earliest childhood he had been brought to the bar night after night by his mother (Betty Garrett), who is driven by a masochistic thirst to watch her butcher husband (Warren Gates) while away the evenings with a waitress floozy (Peggy Pope). In her firmly devoted way, the mother believes that the boy should get to know and understand his carousing father. It is a futile hope: in a drunken stupor, the father tries to kill the boy with...