Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARINA OSWALD, 23, the assassin's Russian-born wife, was a pitiable creature, beaten and burdened by a psychotic husband who was a flat-out failure in every way. After Oswald was killed, sympathetic people sent Marina some $60,000. She moved into a $15,000, three-bedroom, air-conditioned brick house in a Dallas suburb. She had her teeth fixed, now affects fashionable coiffures and Neiman-Marcus clothes. She bought her own membership in Dallas' Music Box, a private club, and she turns up frequently with dates. Marina tosses down shots of vodka, chases them with...
...tone of things. Three weeks later, Preston moved out on his offstage wife of 24 years, Catherine, and began to concentrate on after-theater sorties with his leading lady, Swedish Singer Ulla Sallert, 41. Ulla says it is "just a coincidence" that she is divorcing her husband of 19 years, Baron Franz von Lampe. "I am not a home-cracker," she coos, "but if I'm invited by my leading partner to dinner, I don't see why I shouldn't accept...
Other housewives might have taken up bridge, or begun an affair. Mrs. Eiseman turned out pinafores instead, gave them as gifts to children of friends. Husband Laurence (then head of a collection agency) looked at his wife's designs with a sharp, enthusiastic eye, and persuaded Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. to do the same. It was the fussy era in children's fashions, a day that called for ruffles and ribbons and starched puffed sleeves. Mrs. Eiseman preferred simple styles, fine fabrics and an elegance not of ornament but of workmanship. Marshall Field ordered...
...prose-and-life styles of Zola and Dostoevsky, apparently because they never had to attend the P.T.A. The wife is soon marking time with an Italian movie director, and the writer dillydallies with a local marchesa who wickedly dots her toes with perfume. At the moment of carnal truth, husband flashes his children's photographs like an FBI agent making an arrest, and leaves, virtus intacta...
...this situation, an American housewife would get a divorce or take a course in something. By the end of these 600 pages, Martha has indeed left her husband, and also joined a Communist Party cell. But Martha is moved to redecorate her mind by impulses that would prompt a less intelligent woman to change the slip covers in her living room. She serves the cause of world revolution because she is bored with serving tea cakes...