Word: lovelorn
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Each week some 5,000 woe-laden readers of the Chicago Sun-Times's Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers-who is syndicated in 342 other papers-apply to her for solace and advice. They usually get it, sometimes right between the eyes: to the miss who asked how to treat her swain's offer to "get married or something," Ann snapped: "You should get married-or nothing." Last August one of Columnist Landers' greatest admirers, Sun-Times Executive Editor Larry Fanning ("This girl has something beyond mere shrewdness"), detached her for a venture into straight reporting. Assignment: Moscow...
...running chronicle of domestic woe. She went to Russia, said Landers Fan Fanning, "to find out what the hell people are up to." What people are up to in Moscow, according to Dear Ann, is the same old mischief and misery that fills the capitalist press's lovelorn columns...
...Royal Air Force pilot, London-born James R. A. Bailey, son of the late Sir Abe Bailey, South African financier. Jim Bailey made Drum a lively blend of chocolate cheesecake, sport, controversy, crusades, sensational features, tips to Africa's millions of pennywhistle gamblers, and inscrutable advice to the lovelorn (to a man who asked how he could retrieve the cash investment he had made in two potential wives, "Dolly," Drum's marital expert, coldly suggested: "Providence will reward you"). The difference between the West African, who does not mind being black, and the South African native, who does...
...when you don't work? A. (Marlene smiled and stroked the head of her piano accompanist, Friedman Bachrach, 30, seated by her.) Q. So that's it? A. (Still smiling, she nodded.) Q. What else do you do besides sing and act? A. Counsel the lovelorn. Q. Why do you specialize so much in love? A. Because it is the only important thing. Q. Do you plan to write your memoirs? A. No, I am not an exhibitionist. Q. What do you fear most? A. Death...
Both in bestselling novels and in real life, rebellious married women revenged their husbands' unfaithfulness by taking lovers. The lovelorn columns of the daily papers were filled with unprecedented letters from wives complaining that their husbands were "sexually inadequate." To the dismayed men of Japan it seemed that their women had swiftly shed the centuries-old virtues of chastity, submission and docility, turned overnight into Westernized harpies...