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...lady's calculations resulted in a different conclusion. She said she married Holm, her live-in lover for 2 1/2 years, only so he would not feel like a dog trailing behind her. Even so, Collins testified, she had made him sign a prenuptial agreement giving him only 20% of her earnings during their marriage and nothing more in case of divorce. Not so, answered Holm. He claimed the document merely signified their mutual respect...
...private nanny or au pair usually assures a child more individual attention. Professional couples, who must work long hours or travel, often find that such live-in arrangements are the only practical solution, though the cost can exceed $300 a week. However, most live-in sitters in the U.S., unlike the licensed nannies of Britain, have no formal training. Many speak English poorly, and agencies frequently do a cursory job of screening them. A Dallas mother who asked an attorney friend to run a check on her newly hired nanny was told the woman was wanted for writing bad checks...
...most other universities, where undergraduates working as resident advisers are live-in sources of comfort and advice, upperclassmen have a real opportunity to influence their advisees. Here, there is no such chance...
...Tonight show monologue, but no kidding, folks, Johnny Carson, 61, is serious about getting married a fourth time. The bean-pole comic's flacks let it be known last week that he has become engaged to Alex Maas, a blond beauty in her mid-30s who has been his live-in for the past year and a half. Carson met Maas on the beach near his Malibu home. No date has been set for the wedding. It is understandable if Carson is in no hurry to retie the knot. His support payment for his third wife comes to a whopping...
...Carver, 49, a bachelor who learns from his two older sisters in Memphis that their father, 81 and a widower, is planning to remarry. Phillip believes he has long since escaped Memphis and old associations; he works for a publishing house in Manhattan and collects rare books. But his live-in girlfriend Holly has just moved out on him, and he is lonely and therefore vulnerable to appeals from the past. There is also the matter of his father's "not inconsiderable fortune" and the possibility of an interloper's inheriting it. Phillip confesses, "I did think of the money...