Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dozen Roses. One night, when Frank was a law student, he went on a double date with a lawyer friend, spent the evening making calf's eyes at his friend's date, pretty Jane Sheal. After seven years of courtship and engagement, they were married by an Episcopal minister because Jane, a "stubborn Methodist" by her own description, refused to be married in the rites of the Catholic Church. Although Frank was automatically barred by his marriage from receiving the sacraments of his church, Ma Lausche, a devout Catholic, proudly welcomed her daughter-in-law into the family...
...Jane Lausche, a wise and witty woman, has been a sturdy asset to her husband. She is a charming hostess, a good housekeeper, and an ornament to any political gathering. Not long after her marriage, she quit her successful interior designing business. Life with Lausche, she discovered, was career enough: "It's like being married to a mountain. There's no use trying to move him or domesticate him. He works, works, works all the time...
...Jane has ideas of her own: in 1951, despite her husband's horrified objections, she took flying lessons and got a pilot's license because, she explained, with all the flying she and the governor do, somebody should be able to take over in case anything happened to the pilot. In her way Mrs. Lausche has managed to change her husband slightly, often without his knowledge. When he refused to yield his wrinkled, tired suits to her for cleaning and pressing, Jane slyly bought duplicate suits, now manages to keep the governor's wardrobe fresh by wifely...
...personal expenditures, Lausche is just as tender with the taxpayer: he insists on paying his own expenses, above transportation costs, whenever he makes a business trip. (Jane Lausche is equally scrupulous with the housekeeping budget for the governor's mansion. She sometimes splits the cost of a pound of coffee with the state: so many cups for private, personal use, so many for official guests...
Lausche does not like to play a losing game or to back a risky candidate. In his lonely, canny way he has decided not even to support Candidate Frank Lausche for the presidency. At a dinner party last summer, he calculated his chances at 1% ("Remember me," retorted Jane Lausche. "Make it one-half of 1%"). Though the odds have gone up in recent months, Lausche is still disinclined to bet on Lausche. "I will do nothing to reach the goal," he says. "The honor doesn't come from one's desire to attain it. A man should...