Word: matronly
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...there just the hint of a double chin? It wouldn't be surprising, for Monaco's Princess Grace is 35. But even when Mom becomes a full-fledged matron catching the more mature gazes, the family will still have a girl to turn younger heads. Arriving in the U.S. for a kinsfolk wedding, eight-year-old Princess Caroline flashed a cool smile of her own, asked, "Mummy, will you let me be an actress when I grow up?" Murmured Mummy, who says she'll never make another film herself, "You're already an actress, darling...
Rich, caught cavorting with a chic matron (Micheline Presle), is cleverly bamboozled into marriage by his blonde secretary (Catherine Deneuve). He divorces her, the better to enjoy her favors when she becomes another man's wife. Brialy, a successful "lay-out artist," jilts his bride (Marie Laforêt) at the altar, leaves for a solo honeymoon m Athens, where he matches wits with a^ vivacious swindler (Françhise Dor-léac, real-life sister of Actress Deneuve), who ultimately becomes his better half...
...Gilbert called it a momentous occassion, noting that it was the first time Chagall and Radcliffe had gotten together. The art critics said the paintings were a relief from soup cans and dots. A mink-covered matron decided to buy one to replace an old Chagall she feared had grown unfashionable...
Best and most characteristic of the stories is The Fall and Rise of Mrs. Hapgood. An English matron, shocked to learn of her seemingly unassailable husband's chronic infidelities, looks long at herself and is repelled by what she sees: something between a nanny and a Girl Guide. She takes on a new face, a new wardrobe, a lover ("Why not have fun?"), and learns to fight for her real life "like a sane animal that wants to survive." Her husband, she realizes, had wanted her merely as a mother; her lover, she feels, is making an honest woman...
Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors was obviously bothered by the case it was considering. The crime, said Judge John M. Comley speaking for a unanimous bench, was "particularly revolting and atrocious." Yet the conviction of Handyman Harlis Miller, serving a life sentence for the murder of Westport Matron Isabel Sillan, was reversed because it had been obtained with the aid of inadmissible evidence...