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...lady died in Pittsburgh not long ago. She was a spinster who wore sensible shoes and no-nonsense hair styles, and she had labored more than 30 years in the musty routine of a bank. The life of Miss Ida Capers, 72, was a lonely one-except for her dogs. All her life she had had at least two. When she suffered a heart attack in her house last January, her only companions were a pair of Irish setters named Brickland and Sunny Burch...
...Ida Capers called them her "girls." At Christmas, she sent out pictures of her dogs, as proud parents send photos of children. Often, the only jewelry she wore was a pin shaped like an Irish setter. Her dogs were her life, but Miss Capers fretted constantly about what might happen when Brickland and Sunny Burch no longer had her to care for them. Who could possibly love them as she had? Determined that her dogs should not suffer, Miss Capers wrote a will-leaving the bulk of her modest estate to the Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania and stipulating that...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Even non-Ness fans may get a chill out of "Man in the Cooler," with J. D. Cannon and Salome Jens, directed by Ida Lupino...
Born in cockney London, the daughter of an acting family whose traceable history on the stage goes back to medieval Italy, Ida Lupino is referred to by her husband, Actor Howard Duff, as "the ex-Limey broad." They have been married eleven years, and she adores him so much that there have been four reconciliations. Six years ago, when they began acting as a husband-wife team in their own productions of Mr. Adams and Eve for CBS. some Madison Avenue oracle told them that it would be unsuccessful because they "would not be identified with the next-door neighbors...
...call ourselves the Guttersnipes." says Ida in her dulcet croak, "as opposed to the Rat Pack. We don't wear Italian shoes and we don't drive foreign cars. We rarely talk about show business. I'm sure there's something much more interesting in this world...