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...first Malvina was very civilized about the whole thing, but then she and Sidney went out and hired a couple of lawyers. The neighbors soon had to call the cops to prevent trial separation of heads from torsos. Even when his daughter became engaged, Ditchley couldn't escape from the lawyers; she called one in to help her write a marriage contract; so naturally her fiance got one too. Finally, Ditchley's wife decided to start a career; $50,000 and two bankrupt batik boutiques later, she got into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike...
...DIED. Malvina Reynolds, 77, spirited folk singer and protest songwriter whose gently satirical tune Little Boxes brought "ticky tacky" into the language in the early 1960s ("Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes made of ticky tacky"); of kidney disease; in Berkeley. Calif. A self-described "working-class woman" with a Ph.D. in philology and folklore, Reynolds found callings in journalism, socialism and teaching before writing songs for folkie friends Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, who recorded her eloquent ban-the-bomb elegy What Have They Done to the Rain...
...Love It Like A Fool" is an unexpected surprise from Susan Wengraff about singer/songwriter Malvina Reynolds, a cohort of Pete Seger's (who appears in the flick) and composer of the old hit "Little Boxes." This film also examines a tradition in this country--the tradition of ignoring old people...
...cruising around with President Richard Nixon in his boat, Bachelor Bebe Rebozo, 60, has been dallying with Jane Lucke, secretary of his Miami lawyer. A divorcee, Mrs. Lucke lives with her mother and two sons, who sometimes come along on her dates. Interviewed by Vera Glaser and Malvina Stephenson of the syndicated "Offbeat Washington" column, Lucke described her beau as "not a recluse" but sensitive to press jabs. Apparently Rebozo was displeased when another Nixon friend, Businessman Robert Abplanalp, when asked what he planned to do with his property next to the President's $6.1 million San Clemente hacienda...
...office, a plot of ground that offers the calm of the country with all the advantages of the city within easy reach. The dream ranges from the manicured privacy of Long Island's "Gold Coast" to the die-stamped uniformity of California's Daly City, which inspired Malvina Reynolds' derisive song Little Boxes. Between those extremes hovers a world of split levels and power mowers, station wagons and shopping centers, kaffeeklatsches and barbecue pits. "Most Americans are not urbanites," observes Sociologist Herbert Gans (The Levittowners) of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...