Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison. Charmain talks of remaining in Australia. "I don't want to have to take my children back to the cold of England," she says. Whatever her plans, she will have some money at last. Australian Consolidated Press is paying $78,400 for the story of how her husband's ill-gotten gains from the great train robbery were quickly drained...
...three children. But the jailbreak cost $140,000 (for men to free him with cleverly counterfeit keys), and the flight from England about as much. The Wilsons lived in constant terror of attracting attention. "The nagging fear of discovery," said Patricia Wilson, "gave me a permanent headache." Said her husband, recaptured in January 1968: "It wasn't worth...
...week as a carpenter and was eager for Saturday overtime of $27.94. Charmain, after the birth of a third son, worked the 4 to midnight shift as a packer in a toilet-tissue plant. "That's the laugh of the whole thing," she said after her husband fled the police with $40 in his pocket. "You don't work at night in a factory when you have hidden resources." Only occasionally did the Biggses splurge. On their last big evening out, a month ago, a Melbourne nightclub photographer snapped a picture of them sipping wine and enjoying...
...Gerry is moving to Rome as special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin. In her place the First Lady has named Connie Stuart, a pert redhead who at 31 is one of the youngest ever to handle the White House job. Connie met the Nixons last year when her husband, also a presidential staffer, was doing yeoman campaign work around the country. But her appointment is no political payoff. After five years' experience in public relations with two New York firms, she seems well equipped to give the First Lady's image a face lift...
...women who have a definite preference for their own sex but engage in occasional activity with the opposite sex and enjoy it. The description of Julius Caesar's protean sex life probably contained a core of fact: "He was every man's wife and every woman's husband." (Caesar's wife was a different case...