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...star -- he said, 'The best thing that could happen to you is that you will get married early and have babies because nice women don't go on the stage. If you don't get married early and it looks as if you are going to be an old maid, well then, we will think about college because then at least you can be a schoolteacher, which is a very respectable profession for any woman.' My mother would say to my father, 'The girl wants to be an opera star.' And my father would say, 'The two boys will...
Once within the Ivy walls, students lived in a luxury which makes today's accommodations pale in comparison. Every Harvard undergrad had his own bedroom, daily maid service, and waitresses to serve him as he selected his meal from printed menus in College dining halls--and all this for a tuition of $400, a room fee averaging $240 a year, and $9,50 a week for meals, according to the Harvard Archives records...
...extra affinity" she felt with the Pope since both he and President Reagan had survived assassination attempts in the spring of 1981. She spent 25 minutes chatting with the Pontiff in his library. After the talk, the Pope greeted 15 members of Mrs. Reagan's entourage, including her personal maid and hairdresser. The Pope and the First Lady exchanged gifts before he bade her farewell, saying "God bless you, and thank you very much for your visit...
...intonations make Coward's dry witticisms positively and Coward's eternally fresh wit is enough to sustain interest, but one almost wishes a kid from Brooklyn would wander in for a change of pace. Something more in the way of contrast is needed; Lisa Peers, as the straightforward cockney maid, comes close to fitting the bill...
...opening argument depicted Von Bulow to the jury as a freeloading layabout: "He was living off her money, and he was living well. The defendant was well aware of what he would get if his wife died." The prosecution's first witness was Mrs. Von Bulow's maid of 23 years, Maria Schrallhammer, an overwrought, slightly bowed woman who could have stepped out of a whodunit. Schrallhammer recounted how her mistress had slipped into a coma while Von Bulow, sitting unperturbed on the bed reading in his bathrobe and pajamas, resisted calling a doctor for nearly five hours. "I picked...