Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VACATION PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Another exhumation from the graveyard of TV pilot shows that died at birth, The Barbara Rush Show introduces a mother of three who supports her med-scholar husband by working as a public stenographer...
...young lawyer, Royall Tyler, met Abigail--or "Nabby," as her family called her -- in Braintree in 1782. Tyler was already known as something of a writer, and Mrs. Adams wrote her husband, "I am not acquainted with any young Gentleman whose attainments in literature are equal to his." Adams was far from taken with the idea of Tyler as a son-in-law. "I don't like the subject at all," he wrote back. "I am not looking out for a Poet, not a Professor of belle Letters... My Children will have nothing but their Liberty and the Right...
...later he wrote, "I don't like the Trait in his character, his Gaiety," and cautioned his wife that if Tyler retained "a Trait of Frivolity or dissapation," the romance should be terminated. Mrs. Adam's approval of the attachment was less tentative, and eventually she had mellowed her husband's attitude towards Tyler to the point where, when the young man formally requested "the sanction of your appropation to my addresses," Adams replied...
...Claus 'raus!" Asked Rotterdam's good grey Nieuwe Courant. "Can a German put flowers at our memorials for heroes he fought against?" Amsterdam's Het Parool objected that the future queen's husband "cannot be a man whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls...
...Ponte Vedra has its own 10,000-acre hunting preserve, stocked with turkey, quail and mallard duck. Judge Harold Medina each winter rents a one-bedroom-and-parlor suite overlooking the Atlantic. When Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge visits the resort, he stays with his sister-in-law and her husband, the Scott Shepherds, at their $70,000 home...