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Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
...about a year ago, Mrs. George Frederick Hanowell, a 60-year-old Washington, D.C. matron, visited a friend who had four children, 5 to 11. All four were huddled about the radio, and "that Inner Sanctum," Mrs. Hanowell recalls with distaste, "was blasting away. There was a fusillade of shots, gurgling sounds of a woman dying, then sirens screaming and shouts of Look out. . . cops...
Project. In Washington, the Interior Department considered a request from a Brooklyn matron: "Dear Sirs: Will you send me some information my class is studing about...
This is the second novel by Manhattan Glamor-Matron Nancy (The Manatee) Bruff, who is the wife of a Wall Street investment counsel. She tried to do some writing in Connecticut, but the birds "screaming on the windowsills" drove her back to Park Avenue. She finished Cider from Eden in a maid's room. It reads as though it had been started in a high-school study hall and completed in a girls' locker room. Miss Bruff used to have Publicity Man Russell Birdwell do her advertising, but no more. "I have had enough personal publicity," she explains...
...Freddie Francisco also had to be toned down, after he wrote about a gay party at a many-bedroomed house on the San Francisco peninsula, concluded that before the evening was over all the rooms in the house had been pressed into service. The Examiner publicly apologized to the matron and her guests, thereby dodging a libel suit...